Written questions

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...