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Borders: Personal Records

Asked by Mr Clive BettsLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 30 June 2025UIN 62530

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring the Border Force to (a) check and (b) record the identities of people leaving the UK.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

The Home Office reintroduced exit checks in April 2015. Working with carriers, exit checks routinely provide us with vital information that confirm a person’s exit from the UK. Details are set out at this link: Exit checks fact sheet - GOV.UK.

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