Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much it costs her Department to process a leave to remain application; how many such applications it has processed in each of the last five years; and how much revenue has been generated from fees for leave to remain applications in each of those years.
The cost of processing visa applications varies by application type and these are set out in the published unit costs and fees table, which can be accessed via the link attached:
FY 2017/18: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/606616/Unit_cost_table_2017.pdf
2. The number of Applications for ‘Leave To Remain’ received/processed are regularly published, refer to links below for latest figures:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-november-2017
3. The Home Office does not hold the information in the format requested. Income is not differentiated between the various categories in which they are received. Our ledger will not allow us to provide this level of detail.