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date	19/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Travel Authorisations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Electronic Travel Authorisation requirements for transit passengers on the competitiveness of the (a) airline and (b) tourism sectors.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	195256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to strengthening the UK’s border by ensuring that everyone (except British and Irish citizens) wishing to travel to the UK, including to transit through the UK, obtains permission to travel in advance of their journey. It will make the UK safer.</p><p> </p><p>The requirement to obtain an ETA will enable the Government to prevent the travel of those who present a risk to the UK, including those in transit. The process for obtaining an ETA will be quick and light touch, and the cost (£10 per application) will be minimal compared to the overall cost of international travel. The ETA brings the UK into line with the USA’s ESTA and the EU will shortly introduce the ETTAS.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/09/2023 11:29:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

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date	03/04/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the First Minister of Scotland has received from (a) the British embassy in Washington and (b) consular offices in the US ahead of his upcoming visit to that country.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
uin	195256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The British Embassy in Washington, and the New York Consulate, have provided support for the visit this week of the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, to the US. The Consul General in New York hosted a lunch at his residence on 7 April, in association with Scottish Development International (SDI), for the First Minister and 17 Scottish companies from the First Minister's accompanying trade mission, to which key business figures were invited. The British Embassy in Washington worked with the New York Consulate to organise port courtesies for the First Minister, upon arrival in New York ,to allow the Scottish Affairs Office (based in the British Embassy Washington) to greet the First Minister at the airport and expedite customs and immigration procedures.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran