PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel (11 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many small boats without permission to enter the UK departing from northern France have been disrupted this year, and of those how many migrants were (a) detained or (b) attempted a further crossing.

Asked by:
Nigel Farage (Reform UK)

So far in 2024 (to 6 October) a total of 607 boats have been prevented from crossing the Channel as a result of our joint work with the French.

Answered by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)
22 October 2024