Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people departing the UK did so with a matching API data record in each year since 2010.

The Home Office collects Advance Passenger Information for passengers who travel to and from the UK on routes connected to the Semaphore system. The figures for passenger departing the UK are only available from May 2010. The estimated number of passengers departing the UK with a registered Advance Passenger Information record in each year from 2010 is shown in the following table.

Period Coverage

2010 65,558,650 (May onwards)
2011 70,627,943
2012 67,960,290
2013 82,311,725
2014 99,328,030