Illegal Immigrants

(asked on 7th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prevented by UK Border Force officers from entering the UK illegally in the last year for which figures are available; and how many of those people have been prevented more than once from entering illegally.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 24th November 2014

Between April 2013 and March 2014, Border Force and other agencies detected around 18,000 clandestines at the juxtaposed ports in France, while a further 16,570 people were refused entry at UK ports.

Please note, the figures on both clandestines and refusals represent the number of detections/refusals of illegal immigrants, not the number of individuals detected/refused, and so includes instances where the same person is detected
on multiple occasions.

Between April 2013 and March 2014, there were 420 recorded instances where a person has been refused entry more than once. Please note this is the number of multiple instances, not the number of individuals who have been refused.
Data is not held on the corresponding figure for clandestines detected. This figure is derived from management information, subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.

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