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Migrants detected crossing the English Channel in small boats: time series
Transparency data, not official statistics. Sheet SB_02 is the weekly series (week ending Sunday); SB_01 is daily. All figures are provisional and subject to change, including reduction; finalised figures appear in the quarterly Immigration system statistics (IER_01). The file name changes every week ("<D>_<Month>_<YYYY>_Small_boats_-_time_series.ods").
- Official page
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats
- Authority
- First-party official statistics · OGL-UK-3.0
- Latest release
- Data to 27 August 2026, published 28 August 2026
- Next expected
- Weekly, on Fridays (estimated)
- Extractor
- ingest/ukdata/extractors/ho_small_boats_timeseries.py
Metrics read from this publication
| Metric | Sheet · table | Row label | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small boat arrivals (weekly) | SB_02 · SB_02 | period | people |
Releases ingested
| Published | Release | Observations | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2026 | Data to 27 August 2026 | 451 | small-boats-time-series-2026-08-28.ods sha256 c2a0ffde96094d49… |