Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of new blue British passports that are rejected at eGates in UK airports.

Passengers may be referred from the eGates to an officer at PCP desks for a variety of reasons, including for safeguarding and security purposes.

There are well defined processes for updating UK border systems when new documents are introduced and the performance of new British passports through UK border controls is being monitored.