Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether security checks for passengers fitted with stoma bags is uniform across all forms of international travel form the UK via (a) planes (b) rail and (c) ferries.

The Secretary of State for Transport sets the security standards with which all forms of international travel must comply. This includes the requirement for people to be searched. We would expect all passengers being searched, including those fitted with medical devices, to be treated in the same respectful and dignified manner regardless of the mode of travel.

It is the industry’s responsibility to ensure that their security personnel conduct searches appropriately and with a sensitive regard to the person being screened such as passengers fitted with medical devices.