Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what preparations have been made to enhance passport checking systems at each of Northern Ireland's airports.

Border Security is and will remain a departmental priority.

Border Force conducts 100% checks on people entering the UK on sched-uled services, together with risked-based intelligence-led interventions at smaller ports and airfields.

All passengers arriving in the UK at passport control are checked against police, security and immigration watch lists on arrival at the border. The majority of these are checked against our systems before they even travel, through the collection of advanced passenger information (API). API helps protect the UK against terrorist attacks, serious cross-border crime and abuses of the immigration system.