Lord Scriven
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Airports: Delays
Lord Scriven Excerpts(2 years, 5 months ago)
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Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con)
I absolutely agree that every passenger should get a good service at an airport and be able to get through security within reasonable time. I know that the airports are beefing up their staffing. The Government have done an enormous amount in this area as well: we have ensured that UK security vetting now has no delays; we have also changed the regulations to ensure that training for these new security staff can start while background checks are ongoing.
Lord Scriven (LD)
My Lords, the chief executive of easyJet has said that one problem it is suffering is that:
“The pool of people is smaller, it’s just maths. We have had to turn down a huge number of EU nationals because of Brexit. Pre-pandemic we would have turned down 2-2.5% because of nationality issues. Now it’s 35-40%.”
How does the 22-step plan that the Government have produced deal with these kinds of staffing shortages?