House of Commons - The work of the Border Force

Home Affairs Committee - Sixth Report
The work of the Border Force

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 16 July 2012.

Contents

Report

Border Force's queue times

BAA's queue times

Potential costs of long immigration queues

A decline in secondary customs checks and seizures

Wasted investment and loss of revenue

Possible solutions

Return to risk-based entry checks

Increase the size of the Border Force

Change the Border Force's rostering pattern

Information provided by airlines

Better use of Technology

3 Progress with e-Borders

Non-canalised traffic

Canalised maritime traffic

Rail

4 Border Force and the National Crime Agency

How the organisations will work together

5 Other issues

National Border Targeting Centre alerts

"Lille Loophole"

Governance and accountability

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of unprinted evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament