Passport eGates back online after Stansted Airport included in national outage
The outage caused long queues and delays at airports across the country last night
The Home Office have confirmed issues with eGates at airports across the country has been resolved.
The national outage last night caused delays and long queues for passengers at airports across England and Scotland, including at Stansted Airport.
Airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle and Manchester were also impacted by the failure on Tuesday evening.
A Home Office spokesperson said in a statement early on Wednesday: "eGates at UK airports came back online shortly after midnight.
"As soon as engineers detected a wider system network issue at 7.44pm last night, a large scale contingency response was activated within six minutes.
"At no point was border security compromised, and there is no indication of malicious cyber activity."
The spokesperson apologised to travellers caught up in disruption.
The gates were designed to enable faster travel into the UK.