Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions of people involved in providing transport for illegal immigrants there have been in the each of the last seven years.

Individuals prosecuted for smuggling illegal immigrants/stowaways in their vehicles – in the period 2014 to 2016 as set out below:

2014/2015 - 52

2015/2016 - 88

Prior to March 2014, this information was not recorded centrally.