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<p>The Home Office has published data on the number of illegals migrants who have
entered the UK illegally by crossing the Channel and the point at which they were
encountered, up to and including February 2019, and this information can be found
at Table 2, at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/19-03-05-Letter-from-Sir-Philip-Rutnam-KCB-Permanent-Secretary-Home-Office-Migrant-boats-in-the-channel.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/19-03-05-Letter-from-Sir-Philip-Rutnam-KCB-Permanent-Secretary-Home-Office-Migrant-boats-in-the-channel.pdf</a></p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number
of People encountered and to the point they were encountered</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>177</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data
from March 2019 is currently being reconciled to ensure accuracy. No decision has
been taken on mode or frequency of any future publication of this data.</p><p>The
Home Office is unable to report on how many people who entered the UK illegally by
sea since January have (1) applied for asylum, (2) been detained pending further enquiries,
as the method of entry for those who claim asylum in the UK is non recorded in a format
that can easily be retrieved and to obtain this information would require a manual
trawl and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>The Home
Office does publish data on the number of applications for asylum in the UK, in its
quarterly Immigration Statistics release, the latest release published 24<sup>th</sup>
May 2019. The number of asylum applications for main applicants by country of nationality,
made since January 2019 can be found in table as_01_q for main applicants:</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Total asylum
applications (Main applicants) </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019 Q1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,922</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Latest
edition available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#asylum</p><p>The
Home Office does publish data on the number of people entering detention, in its quarterly
Immigration Statistics release, the latest release published 24<sup>th</sup> May 2019.
The number entering detention since January 2019 can be found in table dt_01_q:</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Total detainees
</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019 Q1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,153</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Latest edition available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#detention</p><p>The
number of illegal migrants who entered the UK illegally by small boats and have been
returned to another country currently stands at 35.</p><p> </p>
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