HC Deb 29 November 1951 vol 494 cc170-1W
87. Lieut.-Colonel Lipton

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why journalists are no longer allowed access to the Immigration Hall at London Airport.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

The examination of passengers by immigration officers is necessarily of a confidential nature and, as a result of a recent review of the arrangements for the control of passenger traffic at London Airport, it was decided that journalists should no longer be allowed to use the outgoing immigration hall as a passageway. Accredited journalists at the airport have other means of access, to the final departure lounges and I am satisfied that the new arrangement does not hamper them in carrying out their duties.