Passports: Forgery
(asked on 15th January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for using forged passports at airports in the last 12 months.
Answered by
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 23rd January 2025
The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular air arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK’ statistics release, available at:
Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK
We do not hold central data on the number of people arrested for using forged passports at airports, and the figures could only be obtained for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.