Explained
The latest small boat arrivals aged 17 and under figure from Home Office, with its period, release dates and full source link.
The live figure
Irregular immigration & cost
Year ending June 2026
46d old · Quarterly, with the immigration system statistics release
Covers: Year ending June 2026, small boat arrivals only
Small boat arrivals aged 17 and under — 15.0% of the published total. The figure is published by Home Office and covers Year ending June 2026.
Home Office publishes this quarterly, with the immigration system statistics release. UKStats shows the figure exactly as published and never estimates values between releases.
Reproduced from Home Office table IER_02c, "Small boat arrivals, by age group and sex". Covers the small boat route only, not every detected illegal entry route. Shares are calculated from the published counts in the same column and nothing is estimated.
Share calculated from the published counts in table IER_02c
Methodology
Home Office — original publicationUKStats reproduces the published figure exactly; the publisher's own methodology notes are the authoritative description of how it is compiled.
Cite this figure
Home Office, "Small boat arrivals aged 17 and under", Year ending June 2026. Via UKStats (ukstats.co.uk/explained/uk-boats-age-under18), accessed 12 October 2026. Original: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#illegal-entry-routesEmbed this figure
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