Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government at which public points of departure from the UK all departing persons have their passports checked at immigration control; and what percentage of passports are checked at each point of departure.

Exit checks are conducted on all scheduled commercial international air, sea and rail routes. An exit check has two elements:

• the capture of an individual’s basic identity data, either from Advance Passenger Information (API) they supply before their journey or by scanning their passport at the point of departure;

• verification on departure – i.e. a brief visual check - that the passport is not obviously forged and matches the individual presenting it.

Exit Checks data improves national security by helping the police and security services track the movements of known or suspected criminals and terrorists, supporting the wider work across government and law enforcement agencies.