Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the number of irregular migrants processed at Western Jet Foil did not match the number processed at Manston Immigration Centre since February 2022.

All people arriving at Western JetFoil are controlled and tracked through the immigration system, irrespective of the processing facility used.

The majority of are processed further at Manston Immigration Centre but certain vulnerable cohorts, such as Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children who are processed at the Kent Intake Unit (KIU), are processed elsewhere including in circumstances (e.g. medical emergency) where immediate onward processing at Manston is neither practical nor desirable.

The frequency of occurrence of this minority cohort of arrivals, and the manual trawl of records that would be required to confirm numbers, is such that the information would only be available at a disproportionate cost.