Undocumented Migrants: Immigration
Commons · Question 9316 · Tabled 12 Jun 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Gregory Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who arrived illegally in the UK have subsequently successfully applied for the right to remain within the last five years.
Answer
Answered by Mike Tapp, 17 Jun 2026
The Home Office publishes statistics on detected arrivals via illegal routes to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions on asylum claims from small boat arrivals is published in table IER_D03 of the ‘Ille...