Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has had discussions with stakeholders on introducing an electronic visa for citizens of Commonwealth nations to improve the efficiency of the immigration procedure at airports.

As part of our transformation of the border and immigration system, the government will implement a suite of changes to transform the way in which we manage people crossing the UK border.

Our future border systems will provide for a fully digital end-to-end user journey, improving security and making the user journey friendly and digital by default. This will include the introduction of a digital “e-visa”, replacing the current paper vignette.