Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
(asked on 10th September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many migrants are known to have crossed the English Channel by unauthorised or irregular sea transport and landed in England in each week during 2021.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Home Office collates figures of channel migrant arrivals for management information purposes, and weekly arrivals data is therefore held. However, the Home Office preference for validation and assurance of data is for monthly figures as weekly data are not representative of trends and other factors that we deem important to understand small boat crossings.
The following figures for both monthly and weekly arrivals of migrants by small boat in 2021 are from a live database, and are subject to revision following those data validation and assurance processes.
Week commencing | Week ending | Total arrivals by small boat |
28/12/2020 | 03/01/2021 | 58 |
04/01/2021 | 10/01/2021 | 161 |
11/01/2021 | 17/01/2021 | 36 |
18/01/2021 | 24/01/2021 | 0 |
25/01/2021 | 31/01/2021 | 17 |
01/02/2021 | 07/02/2021 | 62 |
08/02/2021 | 14/02/2021 | 0 |
15/02/2021 | 21/02/2021 | 23 |
22/02/2021 | 28/02/2021 | 223 |
01/03/2021 | 07/03/2021 | 150 |
08/03/2021 | 14/03/2021 | 115 |
15/03/2021 | 21/03/2021 | 10 |
22/03/2021 | 28/03/2021 | 327 |
29/03/2021 | 04/04/2021 | 259 |
05/04/2021 | 11/04/2021 | 49 |
12/04/2021 | 18/04/2021 | 82 |
19/04/2021 | 25/04/2021 | 272 |
26/04/2021 | 02/05/2021 | 594 |
03/05/2021 | 09/05/2021 | 130 |
10/05/2021 | 16/05/2021 | 592 |
17/05/2021 | 23/05/2021 | 29 |
24/05/2021 | 30/05/2021 | 528 |
31/05/2021 | 06/06/2021 | 732 |
07/06/2021 | 13/06/2021 | 508 |
14/06/2021 | 20/06/2021 | 352 |
21/06/2021 | 27/06/2021 | 400 |
28/06/2021 | 04/07/2021 | 933 |
05/07/2021 | 11/07/2021 | 642 |
12/07/2021 | 18/07/2021 | 504 |
19/07/2021 | 25/07/2021 | 1529 |
26/07/2021 | 01/08/2021 | 160 |
02/08/2021 | 08/08/2021 | 1282 |
09/08/2021 | 15/08/2021 | 902 |
16/08/2021 | 22/08/2021 | 869 |
23/08/2021 | 29/08/2021 | 0 |
30/08/2021 | 05/09/2021 | 165 |
06/09/2021 | 12/09/2021 | 1862 |
Date | Total arrivals by small boat |
Jan-21 | 224 |
Feb-21 | 308 |
Mar-21 | 831 |
Apr-21 | 750 |
May-21 | 1627 |
Jun-21 | 2177 |
Jul-21 | 3512 |
Aug-21 | 3053 |
Sep-21 (to 12 Sept) | 2027 |