Question follow-through · 1196
Immigration Controls: Airports
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the treatment that people with similar names to other individuals on watchlists receive during border checks at airports.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 26 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 26 Jul 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the treatment that people with similar names to other individuals on watchlists receive during border checks at airports.
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jul 2024
Answer published
Our priority is to maintain a secure border. Border Force performs checks on all passengers arriving at the UK border on scheduled services to identify individuals who pose, or are suspected to pose, a risk to the national interest. Identities, and combin...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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