Immigration Controls: Heathrow Airport

(asked on 12th September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the target length of time for Border Force to process (1) non-European Economic Area passengers, and (2) European Union passengers, at each terminal in Heathrow; and how often that target has been missed in the past six months.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 26th September 2016

The service level agreement for passengers arriving at Heathrow for Non-EEA nationals is 95% of queue measures to be less than 45 minutes and for EU/EEA nationals this is 95% of queue measures to be less than 25 minutes.

The data on the Border Force performance against the targets at Heathrow can be found at:

www.heathrow.com/company/company-news-and-information/performance/airport-operations/border-force

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