Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been recorded as having left the UK by border exit checks in 2015 and 2016 since their introduction in April 2015.
Exit checks were introduced in April 2015 and will, over a period of time, provide us with this information. My Department is considering the use of exit checks data for statistical reporting purposes. A report on statistics being collected under the exit checks programme was published on 25 August 2016 and is available on the UK Government website www.gov.uk. Any data published will be subject to data assurance standards.