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Air passengers will be forced to give 53 pieces of personal information in new terror crackdown Daily
Mail • Electronic checks to be made on every passenger entering or leaving the country, whether by air, sea or rail • Information will be checked against 'watch lists' • Unwanted immigrants will be turned around • Rail passengers face having their bags searched • Home Office minister in startling U-turn says he is 'convinced' time limits for detention of terror suspects should be increased Holidaymakers face price hikes and confusion after the Government unveiled plans to take up to 53 pieces of personal information from anyone entering or leaving Britain.
Security officials want credit card details, holiday contact numbers, travel plans, e-mail addresses, any previous missed flights, car number plates and even frequent flyer miles. The information - which will be taken by operators when a person buys their ticket - will be shared among police, customs, immigration and the security services for at least 24-hours before a journey is due to take place. Anybody who the authorities are unhappy with can be turned away when they arrive at the airport or station with their baggage. The sweeping new measures come as part of a new £650 million contract signed by minsters today that will herald the introduction of electronic checks on everyone entering and leaving the country. Gordon Brown will also spend £400m on tackling radicalisation, a new police and security service and security improvements at railway stations, airport terminals, sports stadiums, ports and more than 100 "sensitive installations" as part of the new anti-terror measures announced today. Rail passengers face having their bags searched and screened under the new anti-terror measures. The crackdown on terror appeared to have been carried out over the head of the government's security minister. Home Office minister Admiral Lord West was today forced to do an embarrassing U-turn just an hour after publicly criticising Gordon Brown's plan to raise the time limit on the detention of terror suspects without charge. He later said he was in fact "convinced" that there was a need to raise the time limit. The list of 90 pieces of information that every passenger must provide will lead to major changes in the processes passengers have to undergo at ports, airports and international rail terminals. Including the cost of remodelling and rebuilding at ports, the entire e-Borders project - with arms manufacturer Raytheon Systems Limited - will cost £1.2 billion, a Home Office spokesman said. Raytheon will lead the technology project - providing machines such as passport and fingerprint scanners - as part of a consortia named Trusted Borders. Companies such as airlines and ferry operators will have to hand the government detailed passenger and crew data prior to their departure to and from the UK. The electronic system will then screen all passengers before they travel to the UK against immigration, customs and police "watch lists".
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