Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals of British Overseas Territories have been refused entry to the United Kingdom in each of the last five years.

The Home Office publishes numbers of people refused entry at UK ports, who subsequently departed (“port returns”) in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The latest data are to the end of June 2022.

A breakdown of port returns by nationality for different periods is given in table Ret_D01 of the accompanying detailed returns data tables. Please note that most of the British Overseas Territories nationalities have been grouped into one nationality group “British Overseas Citizens”. Others which appear more commonly in the figures, such as Bermuda, are shown separately.

Port returns include people who are refused entry and are returned, so are therefore not a count of all people refused entry.

Further information about how to use this data is available in the ‘About the statistics’ section and the user guide.