Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget was for Border Force (a) total and (b) operations expenditure in 2013-14.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The budget for Border Force for (a) total and (b) operations expenditure in 2013-14.
(a) Total Budget £467 million
(b) Operational Budget £396million
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from each country were (a) added to and (b) removed from the travel exclusion list in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
It is long-standing policy not to discuss information held on watch lists as to do so would not be in the interests of border and national security.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many clandestine entrants were identified within the UK after passing through one of the UK's points of entry in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The table below shows the number of forms IS151A issued to clandestine entrants within the United Kingdom. This notifies an individual that they are liable to detention and removal from the UK as an illegal entrant.
The Home Office does not hold reliable data prior to 2005.
Clandestine identified | |
Year | Number of IS151A Papers served |
2005 | 12,013 |
2006 | 10,623 |
2007 | 12,027 |
2008 | 13,239 |
2009 | 10,735 |
2010 | 6,929 |
2011 | 6,836 |
2012 | 6,520 |
2013 | 8,564 |
Total | 87,486 |
· Figures in the table above are based on a count of case type illegal entry clandestine.
· Data is up to 30 September 2014.
· Data based on people with case type as above and outcome of 'Served IS151A'. An IS151A may be issued at the time of encounter, but may be recorded as a clandestine entrant based on the lack of a lawful method of entry to the UK being found (which may be clandestine entry but could have been document abuse)
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many attempted clandestine entrants were identified through the use of body scanning technology at the UK's ports of entry in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The number of clandestine detections made across all UK points of entry by Body Scanning Technology since 2005 is detailed in the table below. The figures quoted are management information, subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.
| Clandestine Detections data 2005-2014 | ||
| year | Clandestine Entrants Identified Through The Use Of Body Scanning Technology (UK's ports & Juxtaposed) | |
| 2013 | 268 | |
| 2012 | 224 | |
| 2011 | 236 | |
| 2010 | 131 | |
| 2009 | 140 | |
| 2008 | 263 | |
| 2007 | 163 | |
| 2006 | 162 | |
| 2005 | 176 | |
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many attempted clandestine entrants were identified at the UK's points of entry by means other than body scanning technology in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The table below shows the number of detections of clandestine entrants which have been made across all UK points of entry by means other than Body Scanning Technology since 2008. Data prior to 2008 is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
| Clandestine detections data 2005-2014 | |
| year | Clandestine Entrants Identified at UK's Points Of Entry (UK Ports & juxtaposed) By Means Other Than Body Scanning Technology |
| 2013 | 7339 |
| 2012 | 4645 |
| 2011 | 4953 |
| 2010 | 5638 |
| 2009 | 8746 |
| 2008 | 6359 |
| 2007 | Not Available |
| 2006 | Not Available |
| 2005 | Not Available |
The figures quoted above are management information, subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) capital and (b) revenue costs are of operating a body scanning machine at a single point of entry over a 24-hour period.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Border Force has a total of 19 body scanners for the purposes of detecting drugs and other illegal contraband at the border; all of which are operational. The average cost of each unit is approximately £133,500 and running revenue cost is £6.50 per unit over a 24hr period.
Border Force also has 5 Passive Millimetre Wave Imaging devices which scan vehicles for the presence of clandestines, all of which are operational. The average capital cost of each unit is approximately £800,000. The maintenance cost to the Home Office over a 24 hour period is approximately £83 per unit.
The Department for Transport requires Security (Body) Scanners to be deployed at some UK airports, at their cost, as part of the outbound air passenger screening process.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 June 2013, Official Report, column 596W, on automatic number plate recognition, how many body-scanning machines UK Border Agency owns; and how many of these are operational.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Border Force has a total of 19 body scanners for the purposes of detecting drugs and other illegal contraband at the border; all of which are operational. The average cost of each unit is approximately £133,500 and running revenue cost is £6.50 per unit over a 24hr period.
Border Force also has 5 Passive Millimetre Wave Imaging devices which scan vehicles for the presence of clandestines, all of which are operational. The average capital cost of each unit is approximately £800,000. The maintenance cost to the Home Office over a 24 hour period is approximately £83 per unit.
The Department for Transport requires Security (Body) Scanners to be deployed at some UK airports, at their cost, as part of the outbound air passenger screening process.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the maximum time spent in a detention centre for the purpose of immigration control by (a) women and (b) men in each category of detainee was in each of the last five years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Published figures on people detained in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers include those held in short term holding facilities, pre departure accommodation and immigration removal centres. Figures exclude those held in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants. The period of detention starts when a person first enters the Home Office detention estate.
If the person is then moved from a removal centre to a police cell or Prison Service establishment, this period of stay will be included if the detention is solely under Immigration Act powers.
The table below shows the longest length of detention (in days) as at the last day of each year, by gender, for people in detention, for the last five years.
| Longest length of detention, by sex, in days | ||
| Female | Male | |
| as at the last day of 2009 | 852 | 1,520 |
| as at the last day of 2010 | 1,093 | 1,885 |
| as at the last day of 2011 | 751 | 2,250 |
| as at the last day of 2012 | 1,117 | 1,620 |
| as at the last day of 2013 | 649 | 1,428 |
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within Immigration Statistics: April – June 2014, from the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many licences have been revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in each of the last three years.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The following table shows licence revocations for the following completed financial years:
2013/14 – 18
2012/13 – 16
2011/12 – 30
NOTE: These are ‘finalised’ revocations where the licence holder’s name has been removed from the GLA public register and any submitted appeals have been concluded (withdrawn, dismissed or dealt with in court) or the deadline for appeals to be lodged have lapsed.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the statement by the Prime Minister of 1 September 2014, Official Report, column 24, on EU Council Security and Middle East, and with reference to the oral evidence of Mark Sedwill, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, to the Committee of Public Accounts of 9 October 2013, HC 663-i, whether data protection legislation in any EU country continues to prevent the disclosure of advance passenger information to the UK.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Some carriers are unable to collect and provide advance passenger information due to concerns that this would be incompatible with EU free movement and data protection legislation. However, we already receive a very substantial amount of such information on European routes, and intend to continue to increase this.