Immigration Controls: Calais

(asked on 10th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people attempting to enter the UK without valid papers were detained at UK border controls at Calais and returned to the French authorities in the last 12-month period for which figures are available.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 19th November 2015

Border Force operates UK immigration controls at the juxtaposed ports in northern France and also operates a multi-layered freight search regime to detect clandestine illegal entry attempts.

The figures for passenger refusals at the juxtaposed controls in northern France are 3,695 in FY 2014/15.

Additionally 39,545 attempts at clandestine illegal entry were successfully intercepted by the UK and French authorities at the juxtaposed controls in northern France in FY 2014/15.

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