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Electronic Travel Authorisations

Asked by Mr Gregory CampbellDemocratic Unionist PartyHome OfficeTabled Answered 3 March 2025UIN 33389

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Electronic Travel Authorisations (ETA) were issued and (b) persons were identified as having visited the UK without a valid ETA between 8 January and 8 February 2025.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

The Home Office publishes data on Electronic Travel Authorisations (ETAs) in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly release’. Data on outcomes of ETAs are published in table ‘ETA_D02’ of the Detailed Electronic Travel Authorisation dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data covers up to the end of 2024.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

The requested information is not held in a reportable format. To provide this information for the purpose of answering this question would incur disproportionate cost.

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