Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who absconded after apprehension by UK Border Force staff at ports of entry in each of the last three years were subsequently captured.

Table one below shows how many people were detained at border points of entry in the last 3 years. ‘Detained’ has been taken to mean those issued an IS81 at a border point of entry, which means that the person has been stopped subject to further examination.

To establish the reason why the person was detained at the border would incur a disproportionate cost, as this would involve the examination of individual records.

Since this government split Border Force from the flawed UK Border Agency and introduced a Ministerially approved Operating Mandate, Border Force’s performance has improved across the board. The number of people who have absconded from a port of entry having been stopped by a Border Force officer has significantly decreased since 2012.

The number of people who absconded from ports of entry after being stopped by Border Force officers in each of the last three years is shown in table two:

This compares with 28 people in 2007/2008, 24 people in 2008/2009 and 11 people in 2009/10.

The number of people who have been stopped by a Border Force Officer that have been recovered having absconded from a port of entry is shown in table three:

The number of people detained at border ports of entry in each of the last three years who were granted temporary admission is shown in table four:
This is management information, which is subject to internal quality checks, and may be subject to change.