Home Department written question – answered at on 20 October 2011.
Charlie Elphicke
Conservative, Dover
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many non-UK citizens attempting to enter the UK illegally or clandestinely were apprehended at (a) the Port of Dover and (b) the Port of Calais in (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11.
Damian Green
The Minister for Immigration
The number of non-UK citizens apprehended by the UK Border Agency and its French counterparts attempting to enter the UK illegally at Calais, and the numbers of interceptions at the port of Dover, for the specified years are as follows:
| Detections | |||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | |
| Calais | 21,881 | 13,847 | 5,345 |
| Dover(1) | 554 | 383 | 328 |
| (1 )Supplied by Local Immigration Team Kent, Immigration Group. Note: Locally collated management information statistics subject to the national protocol. | |||
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