PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Aviation: USA (18 April 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what equalities monitoring her Department conducts on actions by (a) US immigration officials present at UK airports pursuant to an arrangement in place between the UK and US Governments and (b) airline personnel who refuse passengers permission to board flights to the US; and what steps her Department has taken to ensure that equalities monitoring occurs with respect to travel to the US from selected majority Muslim countries.

Asked by:
Ms Stella Creasy (Labour)

Under the US International Advisory Program (IAP), US Customs and Border Protection officers operate in a strictly advisory capacity and can only make recommendations to airlines on whether to allow travel.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
24 April 2017