Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fines have been (a) imposed and (b) paid for the carrying of illegal migrants at ports of entry to the UK in the Pas de Calais region in each time period for which records are kept since January 2014.

The total penalties paid and received by the Home Office under the Civil Penalty scheme for the Nord Pas de Calais region are £4.2 million in 2013/14 and £6.6 million in 2014/15. Border Force issued penalties for those attempting to enter the UK via the Pas de Calais region for each month since January 2014 as follows:

Two Codes of Practice govern what is expected of hauliers and drivers in preventing the carriage of clandestine entrants and the level of penalty that can be imposed in a given set of circumstances. If an effective system for preventing the carriage of clandestine entrants is in operation then no penalty would be imposed.