Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Albanians arrived in the UK on small boats between 1 June 2022 and 31 October 2022; and how many and what proportion of those Albanians said they had been victims of modern slavery.

The Home Office publishes statistics on small boat arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular Migration to the UK statistics’ report. Data on small boat arrivals are published in table Irr_01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK data tables’ with the top 20 nationalities arriving via small boat published in table Irr_02b with the latest data up to the end of June 2022. The release also includes information about the number of small boat arrivals who claim asylum.

The Home Office published a factsheet on small boat crossings since July 2022, including information on the number of small boat arrivals and asylum claims of Albanians.

The Home Office publishes statistics on referrals to the National Referral Mechanism for potential victims of modern slavery in the ‘National Referral Mechanism statistics’. Data on the number of potential victims of modern slavery referred to the NRM (including nationality breakdowns) are published in the ‘National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify data tables’ with the latest data for July – September 2022.