To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether airlines are required under the e-Borders scheme to provide credit card or bank details of passengers; and what categories of information airlines have provided to date. (307871)

[holding answer 6 January 2010]: Carriers can be required to provide reservation data, known as Other Passenger Information (OPI) to the e-Borders system, but only if it is collected in the normal course of their business. This may include details of method of payment, including credit card information.

There are 53 pieces of information that may have been provided by carriers to date. These are outlined in schedule 1 to the Immigration and Police (Passenger, Crew and Service Information) Order 2008, which can be found at the following weblink:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20080005_en_2

A copy is available in the House Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the list of Other Passenger Information required by the e-Borders programme. (307875)

[holding answer 6 January 2010]: Full details of the information to be collected have been outlined in schedule 1 to the Immigration and Police (Passenger, Crew and Service Information) Order 2008 which came into effect on 1 March 2008.

This information can be found on the following weblink:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20080005_en_2

A copy is available in the House Library.