Home Office · sex: Male

Small boat arrivals: Male

4 periods to 2026 Q2

26,973people

Small boat arrivals for Male totalled 26,973 people in the 4 periods to 2026 Q2, down 27.5% (10,241) on the 4 periods before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. Data_IER_D01
  3. Method of entry=Small boat arrivals; Sex=Male
  4. column “Number of detections
  5. sum of 149 rows per period
  6. published 27 August 2026

2018 Q1 to 2026 Q2

Small boat arrivals by sex: 2018 Q1 to 2026 Q2ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour05k10k15k201820202022202420262018 Q1: 6 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 1 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 15 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 251 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 173 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 328 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 630 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 423 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 427 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 1,781 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 3,859 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 1,316 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 1,226 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 3,986 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 9,535 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 10,142 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 4,039 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 6,997 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 17,576 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 11,322 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 3,310 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 6,238 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 11,300 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 3,983 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 4,615 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 6,505 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 9,953 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 10,282 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 5,725 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 11,254 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 11,541 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 5,921 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 3,614 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 5,897 people · published 27 August 2026

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What this measures

The number of people detected arriving in the UK by small boat across the Channel in each quarter, split by sex as recorded at detection.

Arrivals by other illegal routes or people who arrived undetected; a share of recent arrivals is "Not currently recorded".

Source

Dataset
Immigration system statistics: illegal entry routes detailed dataset
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026 · sha256 72071ed0ce3777a2
All values
Small boat arrivals by sex