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Small-Boat Monitor

Daily Home Office detections, dated totals and the source behind each observation. Automatically checked; missing data is never assumed to be zero.

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Small-boat arrivals.

Provisional daily operational figures.
Separate from the quarterly asylum-support population.

2026 through 1 November22,605People · sum of official daily counts
Last published day · 1 November477People · official daily count
Last seven published days1,670People · 26 October–1 November 2026
◐ Derived total / official daily counts — inspect provenance

Year-to-date totals sum dated Home Office observations from 1 January. The weekly time series supplies the historical record; the daily publication supplies its latest seven days. Revisions replace earlier values without adding overlapping dates. A blank or missing count is pending, never zero. These provisional operational figures may be revised; they are separate from quarterly asylum-support counts.

Daily publication updated 2 November 2026.

Last source check: 2 November 2026, 18:18 GMT. Automatically checked against the Home Office publication.

Home Office daily publication ↗ · Weekly time-series file ↗ · Current machine-readable record ↗

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Arrivals through time.

Choose a period to inspect detected small-boat arrivals. This records people detected arriving in the UK, not all migration or the number receiving asylum support.

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People in the selected period3,31830 calendar days · provisional counts

Each bar represents one day. Hover or focus a bar for its date and count. The table supplies the same figures.

Latest 30 days: 2026-10-03 to 2026-11-01
Observation datePeople arrivedRecord status
1 November 2026477Provisional count
31 October 2026259Provisional count
30 October 2026671Provisional count
29 October 2026263Provisional count
28 October 20260Source reports zero
27 October 20260Source reports zero
26 October 20260Source reports zero
25 October 20260Source reports zero
24 October 20260Source reports zero
23 October 20260Source reports zero
22 October 20260Source reports zero
21 October 20260Source reports zero
20 October 20260Source reports zero
19 October 20260Source reports zero
18 October 20260Source reports zero
17 October 20260Source reports zero
16 October 20260Source reports zero
15 October 20260Source reports zero
14 October 20260Source reports zero
13 October 20260Source reports zero
12 October 20260Source reports zero
11 October 20260Source reports zero
10 October 20260Source reports zero
9 October 20260Source reports zero
8 October 20260Source reports zero
7 October 2026119Provisional count
6 October 2026338Provisional count
5 October 2026609Provisional count
4 October 2026418Provisional count
3 October 2026164Provisional count
Latest 30 days
Sources and limits of this record

The Home Office publishes a rolling seven-day table daily and a time series from 1 January 2018, normally updated on Fridays. The Cartulary checks these free official sources hourly when WordPress cron runs and rechecks the weekly file for revisions. Dates and counts are validated before a new snapshot replaces the saved record.

People who arrive undetected, are prevented from leaving France, or arrive via other routes are outside this measure. Operational counts are provisional and may decrease after revision. An explicit source zero is shown as zero; an unpublished or missing value is pending and prevents a complete period total.

Counts cannot establish why a rescue vessel launched, its instructions, coordination with another vessel or the legality of any action. Those questions require separate records. No live vessel positions are presented here.

Home Office daily publication ↗ · Full source and update history ↗ · Machine-readable daily record ↗

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