Question follow-through · 529

British National (Overseas): Airports

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set a target date for British National (Overseas) passport holders to be able to use eGates at the UK border.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 17 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 22 Jul 2024
Answer: 26 Jul 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set a target date for British National (Overseas) passport holders to be able to use eGates at the UK border.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jul 2024
Answer published
The introduction of eGates has been part of the Home Office’s wider approach to transforming our borders. Currently, there are over 270 eGates in place at 15 air and rail ports, open to British citizens and a range of other nationalities.We are in the pro...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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