Electronic Travel Authorisations: Trade
Commons · Question 48820 · Tabled 28 Apr 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 7 May 2025
Question
Asked by Gregory Stafford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme on the number of trade visitors from the EU entering the UK.
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 7 May 2025
Electronic travel authorisations (ETAs) have been introduced to enhance our ability to screen travellers upstream and stop those who pose a threat from travelling to the UK. In addition, by knowing more about people in advance of travel our ambition is to...