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 (a) burgundy and (b) blue British passports that must be manually checked by a Border Force officer as a result of a failure at an eGate.

a) Passengers may be referred from the eGates to an officer at PCP desks for a variety of reasons. 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.

b) Itis impossible to quantify the answer from when as the UK/EU passports (burgundy) have been in circulation for 20+ years.