Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted for failing to present a passport to an immigration officer at a UK port of entry in each of the last three years.

The number of individuals convicted under section 2 of the Immigration Act 2004 for failing to present a passport at immigration control at UK ports is as follows:

2014/2015 (Apr to Mar) – 31.

Before 2014, this information was not recorded centrally.