Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil penalties levied by the Border Force for the carrying of illegal migrants have been (a) issued and (b) paid by (i) UK citizens and (ii) foreign nationals in each of the last three years.

The number of civil penalties levied by Border Force for the carrying of clandestine illegal entrants in each of the last three years has been :

These figures do not relate to the number of penalty notices issued/ imposed for incidents/cases which occurred during these three years. This information is from internal management reports.

The civil penalties paid by UK citizens and foreign nationals in the same period as a whole is information that is not held in an immediately retrievable format and would have to be recovered manually, incurring disproportionate cost. The total amount of penalties without nationality specified is held. This information is from management information reports. Penalty payments made may not necessarily be for the same year that they were imposed. For example if a penalty was imposed in 2014 and then subject to appeal it might not be paid until much later.