Small boat Channel crossings pass total for 2023

The fig of migrants who person crossed the Channel successful tiny boats successful 2024 has already surpassed 2023's full for the year, figures show.

On Friday, 424 migrants crossed the transmission to bring 2024's full up to 29,578 - compared to 29,437 arrivals successful 2023.

The full successful 2023 was down 36% connected the grounds 45,774 arrivals successful 2022.

The Home Office said it would "stop astatine nothing" to dismantle people-smuggling gangs and bring them to justice.

A Home Office spokesperson added: "Our caller borderline information bid volition fortify our planetary partnerships and heighten our efforts to investigate, arrest, and prosecute these evil criminals."

So acold successful 2024, 556 tiny boats are known to person made the travel crossed the Channel.

October has besides seen much arrivals of migrants and tiny boats than immoderate different period successful 2024, with 4,334 radical and 77 boats.