Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the number of additional Border Force officers required to process entrants from the EU, following the recent changes to the Immigration Rules that have ended travel to the UK for those using EEA national ID cards.

No additional Border Force officers have been recruited or required specifically for processing passengers as a result of the change in acceptance of EEA ID Cards.

The previous use of national ID cards at the UK Border by visitors from the EEA, instead of travelling on a national passport, increased demand on Border Force resources at key locations as these passengers needed to use the Primary Control Point, rather than E-Gates, on arrival.

Resource and staffing requirements are continually reviewed, and resources are deployed flexibly as and when they are required.