Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the average waiting time at eGates in UK airports (a) before and (b) after the introduction of new blue British passports.
Performance against our passenger wait time SLA can be found in Border Force Transparency data available at:
Border Force transparency data: Q4 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)
There has been no impact to average waiting times due to the introduction of the new British passports.