Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
(asked on 6th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants entering the UK illegally in small boats were detected in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 14th February 2019
The Home Secretary delivered a statement to Parliament providing the following figures relating to 2018 arrival.
Over 500 migrants - mostly Iranian - attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels in 2018. 80% of them attempted this in the last three months of the year. Around 40% of the attempts were either disrupted by French law enforcement or returned to France via French agencies.