Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many coaches have travelled outbound through (a) the Port of Dover and (b) Eurotunnel in each month since October 2025; and what the average EES processing time for coaches was at each in each month.

The Entry Exit System (EES) is an EU scheme, with checks carried out by the French border police (PaF) at Eurotunnel and the Port of Dover.

The department does not hold figures for the number of coaches that have travelled via the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel. These figures are commercially sensitive and would need to be requested from the port operators directly.

EES should only take a few minutes per person to complete and wait times may be longer during peak periods. This is why the UK government has supported the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel to invest in new bespoke processing areas to improve processing times and help to keep vehicles flowing at Kent's ports.