questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's statement entitled Latest statement in response to small boat crossings, published on 6 February 2026, what is the (a) source material and (b) evidential basis for the illegal migrants statistic; what period of time does the statistics cover; and whether it is a statistics produced by the (a) UK Government and (b) French Government.
answerText: Statistics relating to the number of illegal migrants prevented from attempting to cross the channel is published on GOV.UK at -https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boatsAs explained in the not...
heading: Undocumented Migrants: Statistics