Gibraltar: Navy
(asked on 14th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many vessels the Navy intercepted from its Gibraltar base in 2022.
This question was answered on 19th April 2023
From 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, the Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron responded to 780 Foreign Government Vessels in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW). Of these incidences, 209 were classified as surface incursions into BGTW, while 571 were in accordance with the right of innocent passage.