§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any linkage is planned between the immigration records computer centre in Putney and Heathrow airport.
§ Mr. RaisonThere are no present plans to link Heathrow airport with the immigration and nationality department computer which is now at Bootle. However, experiments are shortly to take place at Heathrow and elsewhere with computer terminals designed to read machine-readable passports and linked to a local micro-computer.