Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to secure UK borders against terrorists travelling from overseas.

Our visa regime is the first line of defence. We refuse a visa to any individual we consider a threat to the national security of the United
Kingdom. The Home Secretary can exclude individuals who are a threat to the security of this country. The Home Secretary excludes foreign nationals who are a threat to the security of this country, and can deprive citizenship from dual nationals, or naturalised British citizens in certain circumstances. With the assistance of carriers who provide advance passenger information we operate no fly arrangements which prevent people who pose a terrorist threat from travelling to the United Kingdom, and have stopped the travel of a small number of people. On arrival at our ports and airports Border Force's operating mandate requires them to conduct checks on 100% of passengers and the police have the power to examine individuals at ports and the border to establish whether they appear to be involved in terrorism. On 1 September the Prime Minister announced that the Government will also be putting our long-standing arrangements on aviation security around the world on a statutory footing; and will work up proposals to be discussed on a cross-party basis for a targeted, discretionary power to allow us to exclude British nationals from the UK