Undocumented Migrants
Commons · Question 65274 · Tabled 7 Jul 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by David Simmonds
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of small boat arrivals were (a) children, (b) babies and (c) women in the most recent period for which data is available.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 15 Jul 2025
The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on small boat arrivals by age group and sex is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK de...