Illegal Immigrants

(asked on 22nd October 2014) - View Source

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 Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 4th November 2014

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
yearClandestine Entrants Identified Through The Use Of Body Scanning Technology (UK's ports & Juxtaposed)
2013268
2012224
2011236
2010131
2009140
2008263
2007163
2006162
2005176

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