States to track all your travel

TRAVEL plans and the personal details of every holidaymaker, business traveller and islander entering or leaving Guernsey will be tracked under new 'big brother' security proposals.

The package, which has alarmed civil liberties groups in the UK, is part of Treasury and Resources' capital prioritisation report - which plays down the scope of the supervision.

And a member of the Home Department has accepted that the Billet d'Etat details are skimpy.

News of the extent of the clampdown was broken by The Telegraph over the weekend.

Anyone departing the UK and the Bailiwick by land, sea or air will have their trip recorded and stored on a database for a decade.

No reference is made to that in the Billet, which simply claims it is not an option to do nothing - but says nothing to justify that.

Home Department member Sam Maindonald (pictured) insisted, however, that the island had no other option,

She admitted that its brief proposal in Treasury's capital prioritisation report in which it asks for the money to spend on an IT system to handle the scheme, was short on detail.

'This is not something we are choosing. We are being forced into it, but for a good reason. If we don't take it on, you won't be able to travel from Guernsey,' she said.