Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of how many lorries entering the UK were screened by (a) body-scanning machines and (b) dogs in the last 12 months.

Body detection freight scanners are one of a range of screening techniques used by Border Force. Border Force operates a multi-layered search regime, which includes detection dogs, carbon- dioxide monitors, heartbeat detectors and scanners.

Border Force estimates that approximately 1.2 million vehicles have been screened entering the UK through juxtaposed port, by Passive Millimetre Wave Imager (PMMWI) and 1.1 million vehicles by dogs in the last 12 months.