Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what records the Border Force keeps on illegal migrants prevented from entering the UK by UK authorities or companies at the Port of Calais and Coquelles.

At the ports of Calais and Coquelles illegal migrants detected by Border Force are passed directly to the French police for removal from the UK control zones for processing by the French authorities.

To ensure the integrity and security of the UK border Her Majesty’s Government does not comment on port specific statistics.

At the regional juxtaposed ports in Northern France, around 40,000 attempts to cross the Channel illegally in 2014/15 have been prevented by Border Force and its contractors and the French authorities, compared to 18,000 in 2013/14.