Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 15179, what estimate her Department has made of the number of British citizens who have used ports of entry at (a) the Port of Dover, (b) Eurotunnel Folkestone, and (c) St Pancras International in each year since 2024.

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of British citizens who have used specific ports of entry at (a) the Port of Dover, (b) Eurotunnel Folkestone, and (c) St Pancras International in the form requested.

No government department routinely records the exact mode of transport used by British citizens entering the UK. Obtaining the specific information requested would require the collation and verification of data from multiple systems and could therefore only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

For context, Home Office data show that there were approximately 73.3 million arrivals of British citizens to the UK in 2024, 77.5 million arrivals in 2025 and 14.4 million arrivals in the period January to March 2026.

The government has been engaging at ministerial and official level with Port of Dover and its operators, Eurotunnel, and Eurostar at St Pancras to mitigate the impact of EES.