Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of allocation and use of Frontier Worker permits on the deployment of crews from the EU and European Economic Area on ferry routes between (1) Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and (2) Great Britain and Ireland.

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on the number of applications for the Frontier Worker permit, broken down by nationality, are published in table Vis_D01 of the entry clearance visa applications and outcomes detailed dataset. Data for the Frontier Worker permit can be selected using the ‘Frontier Worker’ visa type subgroup.

Data relating to the country of residence or employment type for Frontier Worker permits is not available.