Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the category for recorded detections in the UK in her Department’s Irregular migration to the UK statistics, how many of the (a) 7,257 detections in 2018, (b) 8,239 detections in 2019, (c) 5,465 detections in 2020, (d) 5,065 detections in 2021, (e) 3,465 detections in 2022 and (f) 765 detections in Q1 of 2023 were made up of detections at ports serviced by the juxtaposed controls.

The Home Office does not publish data on recorded detections at UK ports broken down by where they were found, in the Irregular Migration to the UK statistics release.

The Home Office does not publish data on recorded detections in the UK broken down by detections at ports serviced by juxtaposed controls, in the Irregular Migration to the UK statistics release.