To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the cost in each of the next five years of reintroducing exit checks for all people departing the United Kingdom. (243521)

The UK Border Agency is committed to extending exit controls in stages, based on risk, identifying who overstays, and counting everyone in and out of the UK, while avoiding delays to travellers, by 2014.

Over the next five years, the Agency will deliver the e-Borders programme, our primary mechanism for the delivery of this commitment. The cost of the programme over the next five years is set out in the following table. It is not possible to separate the costs of collecting outbound data from inbound data.

e-Borders is already receiving data for inbound and outbound services from a diverse range of carriers on some routes and has been since January 2005. This is supported by physical exit checks where operationally necessary.