To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Portsmouth checking people leaving the UK in the last year.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Dover checking people leaving the UK in the last year.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the shuttle tunnel in Folkestone checking people leaving the UK in the last year.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times there have been no police or immigration officials at the ferry port in Hull checking people leaving the UK in the last year.

The requested information has not been released as it is Border Force policy

not to release port-specific staff numbers on grounds of national security.

Exit checks were abolished by the last government. This Government is committed

to reintroducing exit checks by April 2015 on scheduled commercial

international air, sea and rail routes.