Written Question·Home Office·UIN 95265

Identity Cards: Overseas Visitors

Tabled: 27 November 2025
Answered: 2 December 2025

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

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

Mike Tapp
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...

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