Question follow-through · 97331
Immigration Controls: Airports
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 5 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
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
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.
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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