Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will respond to EDM 876 on visitor visas for people from India.

The UK continues to work with India to develop our bilateral relationship to deliver real benefits to both countries.

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.