Immigration Controls
(asked on 8th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals of non-EU member states have been refused entry to the UK in each of the last 10 years.
The table below provides the total number of nationals of non-EU member states that have been initially refused entry to the UK in each of the last 10 years.
Non- EU passengers initially refused entry to the UK, 2006 to 2015 | |||
Year | Total refusals | ||
2006 | 29,436 | ||
2007 | 27,420 | ||
2008 | 26,037 | ||
2009 | 22,055 | ||
2010 | 18,478 | ||
2011 | 16,615 | ||
2012 | 14,855 | ||
2013 | 15,272 | ||
2014 | 16,283 | ||
2015 | 15,351 | ||
Notes: | |||
1) Passengers initially refused entry relates to non-asylum cases dealt with at ports of entry. | |||
2) Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU on 1 January 2007. | |||
3) Croatia joined the EU on 1July 2013. | |||
Figures for 2014 and 2015 are provisional. | |||
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of passengers initially refused entry by country of nationality within Immigration Statistics. The data are available in the latest release, Immigration Statistics: October to December 2015, table ad.04 from GOV.UK on the statistics web pages at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.