Overview
- Home Office figures show 75 people have been returned to France since August, including 20 on Thursday and 13 last Wednesday.
- Fifty-one people have entered the UK through the legal admissions route under the same pilot after security and eligibility checks.
- An Iranian man deported to France on 19 September re-entered the UK by small boat on 18 October and remains held in an immigration removal centre.
- It is understood the man claims to be a victim of modern slavery, and the Home Office says it is working to remove him again.
- Crossings continue at high levels, with more than 11,000 arrivals since the pilot began and 36,954 this year, prompting criticism from Kemi Badenoch and Chris Philp as Keir Starmer maintains the plan is on course.