HC Deb 07 February 2000 vol 344 cc44-5W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) articulated lorries, (b) commercial vans and (c) private motor cars were stopped and searched on arrival at Dover in 1999. [108175]

Mrs. Roche

The immigration service does not keep records of the searches of individual vehicles it conducts. However, immigration service staff based at Dover dealt with 8,878 clandestine illegal entrants who had arrived through the port of Dover in 1999.