Mediterranean Sea: Refugees
(asked on 7th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many refugees the Royal Navy has rescued in the Mediterranean (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of all those rescued.
This question was answered on 13th July 2015
To date, the Royal Navy has rescued 4,747 persons under its Search and Rescue mission in the Mediterranean. The Royal Navy does not record whether a rescued person is a refugee or an economic migrant; this is the responsibility of the receiving nation (in this instance, Italy). The Ministry of Defence does not hold overall statistics of all those rescued at sea by other nations.