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<p>The Immigration Act 1971 contains offences (including those created by the Nationality
and Borders Act 2022) for assisting and facilitating unlawful immigration into the
United Kingdom.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold any data which
shows the number of defendants in England and Wales charged with, prosecuted and convicted
for people smuggling offences created by the Immigration Act 1971.</p><p>However,
management information for England and Wales is held showing the number of offences
charged by way of S25 (Assisting unlawful immigration to member State or the United
Kingdom), S25A (Helping an asylum-seeker to enter United Kingdom) and S25B (Assisting
entry to United Kingdom in breach of deportation or exclusion order) of the Immigration
Act 1971 in which a prosecution commenced in each of the last five years. The table
below shows the number of these offences to the latest available year, 2022, in England
and Wales.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration
Act 1971 {25}</p></td><td><p>309</p></td><td><p>291</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>249</p></td><td><p>155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration
Act 1971 {25A}</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration
Act 1971 {25B}</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The figures relate to the number of offences and not the number of individual
defendants. It can be the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than
one offence against the same complainant. No data is held showing the final outcome
or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at finalisation.</p>
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