Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the proposed increase in visa and immigration health surcharge fees on Hong Kong families seeking British National (Overseas) visas; what are the current fees; and what further plans they have to change those arrangements.

The Home Office is increasing application fees across a range of immigration and nationality routes, including for people coming to live, work and study in the UK. Increasing application fees, together with the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS), in this way could raise more than £1 billion, helping to fund vital services and allowing wider funding to be prioritised for public sector pay awards.

We will lay regulations in the Autumn to amend the immigration and nationality fee and IHS levels and set out which immigration routes are impacted.

The current application fees for the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) route are set out here:

UK visa fees - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The current levels of IHS are set out here:

Pay for UK healthcare as part of your immigration application: How much you have to pay - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)