Immigration Controls
(asked on 4th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the average waiting times at the UK border for the last three years at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted, (d) Manchester, (e) Birmingham and (f) Luton airports.
This question was answered on 17th June 2014
The yearly average queue times for passengers arriving at the Primary Checkpoint to be admitted into the UK are set out in the table below. All meet service level agreement targets, which are below 25 minutes for European Economic Area (EEA) passengers and below 45 Minutes for non-EEA passengers.
| Average Passenger Queue Times (hr:mm) | ||||||
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||
| Port | EEA | NonEEA | EEA | NonEEA | EEA | NonEEA |
| Heathrow TN1 | 00:05 | 00:13 | 00:03 | 00:08 | 00:02 | 00:05 |
| Heathrow TN3 | 00:06 | 00:19 | 00:03 | 00:11 | 00:02 | 00:09 |
| Heathrow TN4 | 00:04 | 00:22 | 00:02 | 00:11 | 00:02 | 00:08 |
| Heathrow TN5 | 00:06 | 00:21 | 00:04 | 00:13 | 00:04 | 00:09 |
| Gatwick North | 00:03 | 00:05 | 00:03 | 00:05 | 00:02 | 00:04 |
| Gatwick South | 00:04 | 00:07 | 00:03 | 00:05 | 00:02 | 00:03 |
| Stansted | 00:13 | 00:20 | 00:07 | 00:10 | 00:06 | 00:09 |
| Manchester TN1 | 00:09 | 00:15 | 00:10 | 00:17 | 00:09 | 00:15 |
| Manchester TN2 | 00:10 | 00:19 | 00:09 | 00:16 | 00:08 | 00:15 |
| Manchester TN3 | 00:08 | 00:14 | 00:15 | 00:23 | 00:11 | 00:16 |
| Birmingham | 00:07 | 00:11 | 00:06 | 00:09 | 00:05 | 00:09 |
| Luton | 00:09 | 00:09 | 00:08 | 00:08 | 00:07 | 00:09 |
| The figures quoted above are management information subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change. | ||||||