Written Question·Home Office·UIN 107679

Eurostar: Immigration Controls

Tabled: 22 January 2026
Answered: 26 January 2026

Question

Sir Julian Smith

ConservativeSkipton and Ripon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2025 to Question 99775, what the results were of the Contactless Travel pilot conducted in October.

Answer

Mike Tapp
In the Immigration White Paper, the Government set out our ambition to use new technologies to increase the use of automation at the UK border, including at Paris Gare du Nord, and deliver visible changes to security, passenger flow and the customer exper...

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