Airports: Immigration Controls

Home Office written question – answered at on 19 January 2017.

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Photo of Diane Abbott Diane Abbott Shadow Home Secretary

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest period of time a (a) UK or EEA national and (b) non-EU citizen had to wait during December before passing through border checks at (i) Heathrow, (ii) Gatwick, (iii) Manchester, (iv) Stansted and (v) Luton airports was in each year since 2010.

Photo of Robert Goodwill Robert Goodwill The Minister for Immigration

Heathrow airport is currently the only provider to publish queue statistics on its website:

http://www.heathrow.com/company/company-news-and-information/performance/airport-operations/border-force

There were only five ports which fell below the 95% SLA performance target from 2012. Data before 2012 is not available. Data for December 2016 is not yet available.

The performance data relates to passenger queuing times – defined as when a passenger / vehicle joins a static body of people / line of vehicles to when they arrive at the UK Border control desk - and as such excludes transaction times for clearance.

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