Identity Cards: Overseas Visitors
Commons · Question 95265 · Tabled 27 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Steve Darling
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend arrangements allowing UK-bound group travellers to use national identity cards to other major sending countries such as Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
Answer
Answered by Mike Tapp, 2 Dec 2025
EU national children are permitted to use their national identity cards instead of a passport when travelling to the UK as part of an organised French school group accompanied by documentation which has been authenticated by the relevant French authoritie...