Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to place electronic body scanners at all airports of the United Kingdom.

The further deployment of security scanners was advised in the ministerial statement of 21 November 2013.

Work is underway with those airports which already deploy security scanners to consider the case for increasing their deployment of security scanners. The Department for Transport keeps all aviation security measures under continual review to ensure that the measures are sustainable, proportionate and practicable and any wider deployment of security scanners would be considered on a risk assessed basis. UK airports comply with EU and UK regulations for the screening of passengers and there are a number of screening methods and equipment options in use.