Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people entered the UK through irregular means other than small boats in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of detected irregular arrivals to the UK across four routes of entry in the ‘Immigration System Statistics quarterly release’.

Data on inadequately documented air arrivals, recorded detections at UK ports and recorded detections in the UK, alongside small boat arrivals and can be found in Irr_01 of the ‘Irregular migration summary tables’. This data covers the period 2018 to September 2024.

Data covering the period of October to December 2024 is due to be published on 27^th February 2025.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.