Immigration Controls: Standards
(asked on 21st July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions waiting time targets were exceeded at major points of entry in 2024.
Answered by
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 5th September 2025
The specific data requested is not available in an accessible format but below are the relevant statistics taken from Border Force’s transparency data.
Of the 832,739 queue samples measured across the UK in 2024, 97.55% of queues were within Border Force’s service standards above the 95% target. These service standards are 25 mins EU/EEA and 45 mins non-EU/EEA.