Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will extend the two-year validity visa pilot scheme offered to Chinese nationals to Indian nationals; and if she will make a statement.

Visitors from India are important to our tourism market and the Government is committed to offering the most efficient and customer focused visa service in India.

Since January 2016 the UK has offered a two-year validity visit visa to Chinese nationals for the same price as a six-month visa. This is a pilot scheme, which we are running to assess the benefits and impacts of such an approach, and which will be subject to proper evaluation. There are currently no plans to extend this pilot to any other countries.