Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many forged or fraudulently obtained passports were detected by Border Force at the UK border in each of the last five years, broken down by the country of issue.

We do not hold the number of forged or fraudulently obtained passports detected over the last five years, and the figures could only be obtained for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

However, the Home Office does publish statistics on irregular migration, which can be found here: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK