A question on #UndocumentedMigrants #EnglishChannel tabled by Lewis Cocking on 22-05-2025 has been answered by Dame Angela Eagle.

Heading: Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
Question ID: 1805711
UIN: 54430
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-05-22
Asking Member ID: 5050
Asking Member display name: Lewis Cocking
Asking Member handle: _LewisCocking
Asking Member Twitter reference: @_LewisCocking
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived in the UK by small boat in the last 12 months have criminal records in their countries of origin.
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Date answered: 2025-06-09
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Is holding answer: false
Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 491
Answering Member display name: Dame Angela Eagle
Answering Member handle: angelaeagle
Answering Member Twitter reference: @angelaeagle
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Answer text: Security and identity checks are carried out in respect of all small boat arrivals including criminality checks on UK databases for, amongst other things, convictions, pending prosecutions and wanted or missing reports. Further checks on criminality depen...
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Answering body ID: 1
Answering body name: Home Office
Tweeted: true