Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the impact assessment for extending the electronic visa waiver scheme to Kuwait.
The Home Secretary made a statement on the electronic visa waiver (EVW) scheme on 9 December 2013 (HC Deb, 9 December 2013, c4WS).
No impact assessment of the intended extension of the EVW scheme to Kuwait will be made public, on national security grounds.
The Government considers the immigration and other risks resulting from the extension of the EVW scheme to Kuwait to be acceptably low, and outweighed by the benefits of encouraging more legitimate Kuwaiti visitors coming to the UK.