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<p>There were 247 unlawful incursions between January and September this year. There
were 103 in 2010, 24 in 2011, 229 in 2012 and 496 in 2013, as stated in the reply
of 17 June, Official Report, column WA38, given by the former Senior Minister of State
for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the right hon. Baroness Warsi. The Government
cannot readily provide statistics for incursions before 2010 as this could only be
obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Incursions are a violation of sovereignty,
not a threat to it. They do not change the fact of British sovereignty over British
Gibraltar Territorial Waters. The Government challenges and protests all unlawful
incursions and these actions effectively defend our sovereignty over British Gibraltar
Territorial waters.</p>
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