Written question asked by Steve Barclay (Conservative) on Friday, 7 November 2014, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 November 2014 (named day). A holding answer was provided on Monday, 17 November 2014. A substantive answer was provided by James Brokenshire (Conservative) on Wednesday, 19 November 2014 on behalf of the Home Office.
Borders: Security
- Question
-
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of how many lorries entering the UK were screened by (a) body-scanning machines and (b) dogs in the last 12 months.
- Answer
-
Body detection freight scanners are one of a range of screening techniques used by Border Force. Border Force operates a multi-layered search regime, which includes detection dogs, carbon- dioxide monitors, heartbeat detectors and scanners.
Border Force estimates that approximately 1.2 million vehicles have been screened entering the UK through juxtaposed port, by Passive Millimetre Wave Imager (PMMWI) and 1.1 million vehicles by dogs in the last 12 months.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 213850
- Session
- 2014-15
- Related items
- Subjects
- Borders Dogs Large goods vehicles Security
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Link
- View this Written question on www.parliament.uk
Librarians' tools
- Timestamp
- 2022-11-03 16:47:35 +0000
- URI
- http://data.parliament.uk/writtenparliamentaryquestion/commons/2014-15/213850
- In Indexing
- http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/writtenparliamentaryquestion/commons/2014-15/213850
- In Solr
- https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/writtenparliamentaryquestion/commons/2014-15/213850