Following reports that one of the east London schoolgirls lured to Syria by IS was able to travel to Turkey on a false passport, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls for a re-examination of immigration and airline checks that allowed that to happen.

 

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds) (Con): It has been reported in the newspapers that one of the three poor girls was travelling on a false passport. Does that not indicate that there are severe shortcomings in the entry and exit checks by our immigration and nationality department and in the airline checks? Will my right hon. Friend commit a future Conservative Government to a root and branch re-examination of those systems?

 

Mrs May: Of course, we are reintroducing exit checks. A certain amount of advance passenger information is available from airlines. We are looking at other ports of departure and the information that can be available. As I said in response to the shadow Home Secretary, exit checks will be in place in April of this year.

 

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