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Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Answer

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

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL2619

Session

2021-22

Subjects

Undocumented migrants English Channel

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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