Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

(asked on 20th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of illegal migrants who have crossed the English Channel to enter the UK since 1 April 2020.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 27th May 2020

The data showing the number of migrants intercepted crossing the English Channel to enter the UK for the months of January, February and March is shown in the table below, including the claimed nationalities for those migrants:

(a) January 2020 – 94; (b) February 2020 – 182 and (c) March 2020 – 187.

By nationality:

Jan

Feb

March

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

53

109

104

Iraq

16

40

63

Syria Arab Republic

16

18

13

Afghanistan

5

3

5

Kuwait Bidoun

1

Yemen

5

1

Pakistan

4

1

Mali

2

Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

1

Senegal

1

Egypt

1

Guinea

1

Grand Total

94

182

187

The total number of migrants for the April period cannot yet be released as the figures have not passed through a data quality check and cannot be assured. The figures will be published at a later date, once they have been

verified.

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