HC Deb 10 March 2004 vol 418 cc1563-4W
Mr. Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals entered the UK in each year since 1997. [157583]

Beverley Hughes

The latest available information is given in the table.

Passengers given leave to enter the United Kingdom, excluding EEA nationals: 1997–2002
Number of journeys1(million)
1997 10.9
1998 11.5
1999 12.0
20002 13.0
20012 12.8
2002 12.6
1Includes people granted leave to enter the UK in the year shown but who may have been temporarily admitted in previous years.
2A change in procedures may have resulted in some under-recording for the fourth quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2001.

Data on passengers given leave to enter the United Kingdom are published in the Command Paper "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2002" (Cm6053), obtainable from the House Library, the Stationery Office and via the Home Office website http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hobpubs1. html.