Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 15 November (HL2957), what were (1) the number of incursions by British State vessels into Spanish Territorial waters, and (2) the number of incursions by Spanish State vessels into British Territorial waters around the whole British Isles, in the same period.

Aside from the information included in my Written Answer of 15 November (HL2957) regarding British Gibraltar Territorial Waters, the Government does not hold comprehensive records on British State vessels entering into Spanish Territorial Waters or Spanish State vessels entering into British Territorial Waters.