Home Office written question – answered at on 13 May 2024.
Bill Wiggin
Chair, Committee of Selection, Chair, Committee of Selection, Chair, Committee of Selection
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have died while attempting to cross the English Channel to the UK illegally in each year since 2020.
Michael Tomlinson
Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Home Office is aware of a total of 69 persons known to have died while attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats since 2020:
2020: 6 deaths reported
2021: 34 deaths reported
2022: 4 deaths reported
2023: 12 deaths reported
2024: 13 deaths reported (as at 30 April 2024)
Yes3 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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