Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196128 on Overseas Visitors: Visas, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of providing a substantive answer to that question.

The government publishes the threshold which would need to be crossed in order for a written question to be responded to with a disproportionate cost response.

This is currently set at £850. Whilst we are not able to provide the exact amount it would cost to answer your question in full, we estimate it would be over this amount as it would require a manual search of a large number of individual records.