Written Question

Travel

Monday 8th January 2024

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people usually resident in the UK travelled to the UK via (a) sea, (b) tunnel and (c) air in each year between 2013 and 2022.

Answered by Anthony Browne

The Department for Transport does not hold data on the number of people usually resident in the UK that travelled to the UK via sea, tunnel, or air in each year between 2013 and 2022.

Data on the number of visits abroad by UK residents from 2013 to 2022 is available, however. This data is published in table TSGB0113 of the Transport Statistics Great Britain publication and reproduced as Table 1 below. The data in this table is collected as part of the Office for National Statistics’ International Passenger Survey, but the Department for Transport does not hold equivalent data for UK residents travelling to the UK. It is assumed that most UK residents travelling abroad will return to the UK at the end of their visit, but not always by the same mode of transport.

Table 1: Visits abroad by UK residents (in thousands) by mode of transport

Year	Air	Sea	Channel Tunnel	Total
2013	54,862	7,980	6,117	68,959
2014	57,893	8,173	6,138	72,204
2015	63,438	7,902	6,278	77,619
2016	68,342	7,639	5,776	81,757
2017	73,746	7,489	6,007	87,242
2018	76,356	7,496	6,719	90,571
2019	79,534	7,150	6,402	93,086
2020 [Note 1]	[x]	[x]	[x]	[x]
2021 [Note 2] [Note 3]	17,061	1,174	907	19,142
2022 [Note 2]	62,243	4,371	4,337	70,950

Note 1: No data were collected for Q2 to Q4 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Due to data only being available for the first 3 months of 2020, this year has been omitted.

Note 2: Data collection from Dover port was restarted in Q3 2021 but no data were collected from the Eurotunnel for 2021 and the first two quarters of 2022. Eurotunnel estimates for Q4 2021, Q1 2022 and Q2 2022 are based on modelling passenger numbers with the data collected from the London Eurostar terminal.

Note 3: Movements across the Irish land border are excluded from 2021.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tsgb01-modal-comparisons

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