To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether an automated authority to carry capability will be specified in his Department's contract with Trusted Borders for services relating to the e-borders programme. (312900)

The automated authority to carry capability did not form part of the core services in the e-Borders contract signed on 14 November 2007. However, it was included as an agreed option within the contract, as a potential future service.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent progress has been made on the implementation of the e-Borders programme; whether the programme met its project milestones in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. (312901)

The project milestone for processing 100 million annualised passenger movements per year has been met by the e-Borders Programme.

The programme has not yet achieved the milestone for processing 60 per cent. of all passenger journeys into and out of the UK.

Currently, e-Borders is checking between 45 and 50 per cent.¹ of all passenger movements.

¹ This figure is subject to verification by statisticians.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the level of compliance by airlines with the data requirements of the e-Borders programme; and when he expects all airlines to implement that programme. (312902)

Currently 111 carriers are providing data to the e-Borders system, covering approximately 2,454 routes.

It is expected that all commercial airlines will be compliant by the end of December 2010, in line with the Prime Minister's statement of 20 January.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when his Department expects to meet its target of capturing 100 million passenger movements through passenger name record checks; and how many such movements have been captured to date. (312907)

We have met our target to capture the travel document information (TDI) for 100 million passenger movements.

To date, through the e-Borders system and its pilot project Semaphore, TDI data have been processed on over 147 million passengers travelling to and from the UK, at an annualised rate of over 100 million passenger movements per year.

e-Borders expects to capture 100 million passenger name record (PNR) movements into and out of the UK by 2013.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent progress has been made on the inclusion of the category of other passenger information in the e-Borders programme. (312909)

Other passenger information (OPI) is known within the aviation industry as passenger name record (PNR).

OPI collection will be rolled out on a phased approach, with particular focus on higher risk routes first. The e-Borders/Semaphore system is already collecting OPI data on a voluntary basis and includes 121 carriers on 76 routes.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the cost of implementing the authority to carry element of the e-Borders programme. (312910)

Following a limited trial last year and the Prime Minister's recent statement on security and border protection, we are examining the options for preventing people travelling to the United Kingdom. No recent estimate has been made of the cost of implementing an authority to carry scheme through the e-Borders Programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has plans to increase the number of security checks on (a) outbound and (b) transit passenger movements carried out by the UK Border Agency. (312925)

UK Border Agency officers carry out a range of intelligence-led checks on outbound and transit passengers. More than 50 per cent. of the data analysed by our e-Borders system relate to people who are leaving British ports. This will increase as e-Borders continues to roll out.

Following the Prime Minister's recent statement on security and border protection, we are examining the options for strengthening our checks further.