Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking with airport operators to ensure the privacy and dignity of airline passengers fitted with stoma bags when undergoing security checks by airport security staff.

As part of ensuring the privacy and dignity of passengers fitted with medical devices within the arrangements for the screening of passengers there is provision that allows security staff to carry out a hand search in a private room. Where necessary or appropriate, airports should enable hand searches of passengers in private.

Passengers are also able to make this request including that the security staff member is the same sex as the passenger. The passenger can also ask for a friend or family member travelling with them to be present in the room while the search is carried out.