Asked by: Steve Baker (Conservative - Wycombe)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ease queues for passport checks at airports.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Border Force’s number one priority is to maintain a secure border. Building on the successes so far this year Border Force will seek to maximise all available resource to minimise wait times for passengers travelling into the UK.
We are also working with other Government Departments and UK ports and airports to implement robust and dynamic plans which allow us to anticipate and quickly respond to the effects of increased passenger travel on the UK’s border controls, whilst continuing to maintain border security and facilitating the movement of people and legitimate goods.