Immigration Controls: Ports

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on introducing automated exit checks for people departing the UK; and whether exit checks will be carried out on (a) all travellers and (b) at all ports from 1 January 2021

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1. 10 September 2020

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on introducing automated exit checks for people departing the UK; and whether exit checks will be carried out on (a) all travellers and (b) at all ports from 1 January 2021

   Source: Commons

2. 17 September 2020

   Answer

   We re-introduced exit checks in April 2015 to further complement our work on border security, plus support the Home Office’s wider work to deal with illegal immigration.The vast majority of passengers leaving the country on scheduled commercial internatio...

   Source: Written answer

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