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<p>Our records currently indicate that the number of clandestine entrants detected
at UK ferry ports was:</p><p>2013 756</p><p>2014 1,480</p><p>2015 1,305</p><p>As part
of recent changes to the way data is recorded, management information from April 2011
has been refreshed and may differ from the data released in earlier responses.</p><p>Previous
figures provided for PQ 21106 showed that, at that time, our records indicated that
678 detections had been made at seaports in 2013. Under the new improved recording
and reporting system, this figure has been updated to 756.</p><p>Clandestine entrants
detected in-country with a declared port of departure that is a ferry port:</p><p>2013
676</p><p>2014 1,343</p><p>2015 1,630</p><p>This is provisional management information
that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.
Because the source of this data is a live operational system, operational reports
taking data from the system at different times will continue to reflect slightly different
numbers.</p><p>As part of recent changes to the way data is recorded, management information
from April 2011 has been refreshed and may differ from the data released in earlier
responses.</p><p>Immigration controls operate at Calais, and as such detections at
Dover are normally counted as in country. For the purposes of this question, detections
at Dover are counted as "at a UK ferry port".</p><p>For part (2), data on
the ferry port of departure has been used as a proxy for port of arrival, as the latter
is not recorded.</p><p>Regarding part (2), it must be noted that data for port of
departure is incomplete: over the three year period there are more than 15,000 clandestines
detected in country with no port of departure recorded. The data for part (2) excludes
clandestine entrants whose declared port of departure is Coquelles, as this is a rail
port.</p>
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