Question follow-through · 3383
Airports: Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which UK airports with international flights do not have eGates.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2026 · 15 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
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which UK airports with international flights do not have eGates.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2026
Answer published
Border Force currently has 293 eGates in operation across ports in the UK; on account of operational sensitivity, we do not disclose the number of eGates at specific ports. To support the further growth of our operational capacity, we are looking to deplo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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