Home Office written question – answered at on 18 January 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his oral contribution of the Home Secretary of 7 January 2019, Official Report, Column 94, how many of the 316 migrants arriving in the UK who had crossed the English Channel subsequently claimed asylum.
Over 500 migrants, the majority of whom are Iranian nationals, attempted to travel to the UK in small vessels during 2018. The vast majority of those attempts were made in the last three months of the year.
We are unable to state how many applications from this route have claimed asylum, as we do not comment on the status of cases once an asylum claim has been made.
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