§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What statistics they will publish on the operation of juxtaposed controls on Eurostar and at French ports. [HL3675]
§ Baroness Scotland of AsthalSeparate statistics regarding the juxtaposed control operations are currently not available. Although the recent expansion of the casework information database to ports will facilitate the collection of data from juxtaposed controls, we will need to take time to assess the quality of the data before deciding on a method of publication.
Local records show, however, that during the financial year 2002–03, 2,442 people were refused entry to the United Kingdom at the juxtaposed controls from Paris and Lille on the basis that they held inadequate documentation. The number of people refused entry at Coquelles, the juxtaposed control situated at the French end of the Channel Tunnel, for the same reason and during the same period was 2,232 and for Calais Frethun was 56.