Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the UK Border Agency regularly screens vehicles entering the UK for the purpose of detecting illegal immigrants.

Border Force operates a multi-layered search regime using a range of interventions to screen vehicles entering the UK, including for the purposes of detecting illegal immigrants.

This includes Passive Millimetre Wave Imaging devices, heartbeat monitors and carbon dioxide detectors as well as physical searches by sniffer dogs, Border Force staff and specialist search contractors.