Immigration Controls
(asked on 4th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from non-EU countries were refused entry to the UK in each of the years between 1990 and 2005.
The table below provides the total number of nationals of EU and non-EU member states that have been initially refused entry to the UK since 2004. Information prior to 2004 is not available.
Year | Total EU refusals (3,4) | Total non-EU refusals |
2004 | 6,342 | 32,049 |
2005 | 635 | 29,375 |
Notes:
1) Information prior to 2004 is not available.
2) Passengers initially refused entry relates to non-asylum cases dealt with at ports of entry.
3) Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU on 1 January 2007.
4) Croatia joined the EU on 1 July 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.