Asked by: Angus MacDonald (Liberal Democrat - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help strengthen the UK’s relationship with San Marino.
Answered by Stephen Doughty - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK has a good relationship with San Marino founded on shared values and interests which we promote bilaterally and through our common membership of multilateral fora. Earlier this year our Ambassador to Italy and San Marino led a senior Embassy delegation to San Marino to launch a new UK-San Marino structured bilateral dialogue with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This dialogue focusses on important areas of co-operation such as foreign and security policy and growth, and builds on our existing Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation to further strengthen diplomatic relations.
Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Reform UK - Romford)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will consider a mutual recognition of judgements agreement with San Marino.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Foreign judgments (including those from San Marino) can be enforced in the courts of England and Wales at common law by bringing a fresh action, subject to certain limited grounds of refusal.
The Government has no current plans to pursue a bilateral agreement with San Marino to further facilitate the recognition of judgments. However, the Government welcomes international cooperation in this area of law, for the benefit of UK businesses and citizens who live, work and trade across borders.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual quota for each of the Youth Mobility Scheme partner countries (a) was in 2024 and (b) is in 2025.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Quotas for the UK’s Youth Mobility Scheme visa route are published in Appendix Youth Mobility Scheme: eligible nationals of the Immigration Rules. The quotas for the upcoming year were set out in Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules HC 733 on 12 March and will be implemented in the Immigration Rules on 9 April. Quota information from previous years is also published online in the archived Immigration Rules.
For 2024, we allocated the following quotas for each of our partner countries:
- Andorra – 100 places
- Australia – 45,000 places
- Canada – 8,000 places
- Hong Kong – 1,000 places
- Iceland – 1,000 places
- India – 3,000 places
- Japan – 6,000 places
- Monaco – 1,000 places
- New Zealand – 8,500 places
- Republic of Korea - 5,000 places
- San Marino – 1,000 places
- Taiwan – 1,000 places
- Uruguay – 500 places.
For 2025, we have allocated the following quotas for each of our partner countries:
- Andorra – 100 places
- Australia – 42,000 places
- Canada – 10,000 places
- Hong Kong – 1,000 places
- Iceland – 1,000 places
- India – 3,000 places
- Japan – 6,000 places
- Monaco – 1,000 places
- New Zealand – 9,500 places
- Republic of Korea - 5,000 places
- San Marino – 1,000 places
- Taiwan – 1,000 places
- Uruguay – 500 places.
Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Reform UK - Romford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to promote cooperation within the tertiary education sector with the Republic of San Marino.
Answered by Janet Daby
This government is resetting the relationship with our European friends to strengthen ties, secure a broad-based security pact and tackle barriers to trade.
We are working with the higher education (HE) sector to ensure our world leading universities continue to attract the best and brightest and support the UK’s economy.
The UK is outward looking and welcomes international students, including those from San Marino, who make a positive impact on the UK’s HE sector, our economy and society as a whole.
Asked by: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many individuals entered the UK under the Youth Mobility Scheme in each of the past five years from (1) Andorra, (2) Iceland, (3) Japan, (4) Monaco, (5) San Marino, and (6) Uruguay; and how many UK citizens entered each of those states under that scheme in the same period.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas, including Youth Mobility Scheme visas, by nationality in the 'Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release'.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release]
Data on grants of visa applications are published in table 'Vis_D02' of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk]
Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the 'Notes' page of the workbook.
The below data is found in the latest Immigration System Statistics release, published on 27 February, for data up to December 2024.
Youth Mobility Scheme visas granted by year and nationality
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Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the 'Research and statistics calendar'.
[https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=relevance]
Information on UK citizens entering other countries on youth mobility schemes is either not centrally held or currently available from the published statistics, and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many individuals entered the UK under the Youth Mobility Scheme in each of the past five years from (1) Australia, (2) Canada, (3) New Zealand, and (4) South Korea; and how many UK citizens entered each of those countries under that scheme in the same period.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas, including Youth Mobility Scheme visas, by nationality in the 'Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release'.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release]
Data on grants of visa applications are published in table 'Vis_D02' of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk]
Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the 'Notes' page of the workbook.
The below data is found in the latest Immigration System Statistics release, published on 27 February, for data up to December 2024.
Youth Mobility Scheme visas granted by year and nationality
|
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the 'Research and statistics calendar'.
[https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=relevance]
Information on UK citizens entering other countries on youth mobility schemes is either not centrally held or currently available from the published statistics, and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many individuals entered the UK under the Youth Mobility Scheme in each of the past five years from (1) Hong Kong, and (2) Taiwan; and how many UK citizens entered each of those countries under that scheme in the same period.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas, including Youth Mobility Scheme visas, by nationality in the 'Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release'.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release]
Data on grants of visa applications are published in table 'Vis_D02' of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk]
Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the 'Notes' page of the workbook.
The below data is found in the latest Immigration System Statistics release, published on 27 February, for data up to December 2024.
Youth Mobility Scheme visas granted by year and nationality
|
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the 'Research and statistics calendar'.
[https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=relevance]
Information on UK citizens entering other countries on youth mobility schemes is either not centrally held or currently available from the published statistics, and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many individuals entered the UK under the India Young Professionals Scheme in each of the past five years, or since the implementation of the scheme; and how many UK citizens entered India under that scheme in the same period.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas, including Youth Mobility Scheme visas, by nationality in the 'Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release'.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release]
Data on grants of visa applications are published in table 'Vis_D02' of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk]
Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the 'Notes' page of the workbook.
The below data is found in the latest Immigration System Statistics release, published on 27 February, for data up to December 2024.
Youth Mobility Scheme visas granted by year and nationality
|
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the 'Research and statistics calendar'.
[https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=relevance]
Information on UK citizens entering other countries on youth mobility schemes is either not centrally held or currently available from the published statistics, and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Reform UK - Romford)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to strengthen diplomatic relations with the republic of San Marino.
Answered by Stephen Doughty - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK has a good relationship with San Marino. On 11-12 February, our Ambassador to Italy and San Marino led a senior Embassy delegation to San Marino to launch a new UK-San Marino structured bilateral dialogue with the Sammarinese Foreign Minister and key Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials. This dialogue focussed on important areas of co-operation such as foreign and security policy and growth, and built on our existing Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation to further strengthen diplomatic relations.
Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government in which countries the UK does not have a permanent diplomatic presence.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has a network of 281 officially designated overseas Posts. It does not currently have a permanent diplomatic presence in the countries listed below. However, the list includes countries in which we have officially designated Posts which are temporarily suspended in country and our mission to that country operates elsewhere for political or operational reasons (Afghanistan, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Yemen) or have diplomatic staff who are not in permanent residence (Haiti, Burundi, Gabon). Locations defined as UK territories are excluded. Information about the FCDO overseas network is available at www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-foreign-office-posts.
Key:
(1) Temporarily suspended
(2) Diplomats not in permanent residence