Home Office written question – answered at on 9 December 2025.
Joe Robertson
Conservative, Isle of Wight East
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average queue time at passport control was at UK airports in (a) November 2025 and (b) each month since July 2024.
Mike Tapp
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The specific data requested is not available in an accessible format but below are the relevant statistics taken from Border Force’s transparency data.
Of the 897,695 queue samples measured across the UK in 2025, 97.9% of queues were within Border Force’s service standards above the 95% target. These service standards are 25 mins EU/EEA and 45 mins non-EU/EEA.
For further transparency data, including 2024, please refer to the below GOV.UK link.
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