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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the transparency data published by her Department entitled Small boat arrivals: last 7 days, if she will make it her policy to include information on the sex of migrants in this data.

Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain)

Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and availability of data.

The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on detected small boat arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK statistics’ release. Quarterly data on detected small boat arrivals by sex is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK detailed datasets’ with the latest data up to the end of June 2024. Data for July to September 2024 will be published on 28 November 2024.

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