Subject	Predicate	Object
1vjMZaFb	a	Resource
		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	YSCwRnVE
	answer has answering person	Alan James Carter Duncan
	answer text	<p>2018 saw an 80 percent reduction, comapred to 2014 in the number of migrants crossing the central Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy – from 119,000 in 2017 to 23,000 in 2018, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) figures. The number of fatalities on the central route has not reduced by the same rate. According to UNHCR the proportion of dead and missing compared to the number of arrivals doubled in 2018 to 5.6 percent from 2.4 percent in 2017. The largest proportion of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa during 2018 continued to be from Libya, although the proportion crossing from Tunisia increased during 2018. The European Commission reports the Italian Ministry of Interior as stating that 56 percent of migrants heading for Italy departed from Libya.</p>
	answer given date	2019-01-17
	answer has answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	written answer has answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	answering body has written answer	1vjMZaFb
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	answering body has answer	1vjMZaFb
YSCwRnVE	question has answer	1vjMZaFb
Alan James Carter Duncan	answering person has answer	1vjMZaFb