Question follow-through · 50490
Immigration Controls: France
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken for passengers travelling to the UK to go through UK passport control at Gard du Nord Station.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 15 May 2025 · 8 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
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken for passengers travelling to the UK to go through UK passport control at Gard du Nord Station.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 30 April to Question 46921.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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