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) 1,052 detections in 2018, (b) 962 detections in 2019, (c) 841 detections in 2020, (d) 665 detections in 2021, (e) 310 detections in 2022 and (f) 57 detections in Q1 of 2023 were made up of detections of individuals in lorries and shipping containers.

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.