Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the implementation of the new EU entry/exit system on passenger processing times at St Pancras International station.
The Government is engaging both the European Commission and French Government through officials holding routine technical meetings to understand and influence the implementation plans of the new system at St Pancras. This includes working with High Speed 1 and Eurostar to understand and support their plans to mitigate EES and ETIAS impacts there, as the EES processes there will take place before departure from the UK.