Speeches

Jim Fitzpatrick – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Fitzpatrick on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the average waiting times at the UK border for the last three years at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted, (d) Manchester, (e) Birmingham and (f) Luton airports.

Karen Bradley

The yearly average queue times for passengers arriving at the Primary Checkpoint to be admitted into the UK are set out in the table below. All meet service level agreement targets, which are below 25 minutes for European Economic Area (EEA) passengers and below 45 Minutes for non-EEA passengers.

Average Passenger Queue Times (hr:mm)
2011 2012 2013
Port EEA NonEEA EEA NonEEA EEA NonEEA
Heathrow TN1 00:05 00:13 00:03 00:08 00:02 00:05
Heathrow TN3 00:06 00:19 00:03 00:11 00:02 00:09
Heathrow TN4 00:04 00:22 00:02 00:11 00:02 00:08
Heathrow TN5 00:06 00:21 00:04 00:13 00:04 00:09
Gatwick North 00:03 00:05 00:03 00:05 00:02 00:04
Gatwick South 00:04 00:07 00:03 00:05 00:02 00:03
Stansted 00:13 00:20 00:07 00:10 00:06 00:09
Manchester TN1 00:09 00:15 00:10 00:17 00:09 00:15
Manchester TN2 00:10 00:19 00:09 00:16 00:08 00:15
Manchester TN3 00:08 00:14 00:15 00:23 00:11 00:16
Birmingham 00:07 00:11 00:06 00:09 00:05 00:09
Luton 00:09 00:09 00:08 00:08 00:07 00:09
The figures quoted above are management information subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.