Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2019 to Question 218253, for what reason data on the number of clandestines detected at (a) juxtaposed controls and (b) UK ports for the years following 2014 have not been published.

We do not routinely publish management information in answers to Parliamentary Questions as these answers cannot be subject to the same extensive assurance as official statistics outputs.

Border Force does not routinely publish data that does not meet the Home Office standard for publication or that could impact its operational effectiveness. There are no current plans to routinely publish this data, but this is kept under review by Minsters.