Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many service points for processing visa applications are currently operated by Sopra Steria; what the locations are of those service points; and which of those points are (a) free and (b) charge for that service.

Sopra Steria have opened 56 fixed service points to date, a 57th location in Grays will open early 2019

The locations of each service are listed below, 6 Core Service Points are free sites and any other sites are charged depending on the service pack-age a customer chooses
Core Centres
• Belfast
• Birmingham
• Cardiff
• Croydon
• Glasgow
• Manchester

Other

• Aberdeen
• Barbican
• Bedford
• Bournemouth
• Bradley Stoke
• Brighton
• Burnholme
• Burnley
• Cambridge
• Canning Town
• Canterbury
• Coventry
• Dorchester
• East Ham
• Eastbourne
• Gloucester
• Hammersmith (temporary)
• Hemel Hempstead
• Hull
• Ipswich
• Kensington
• Lancaster
• Liverpool
• Llandudno
• London
• Newcastle
• Newport
• Norwich
• Nottingham
• Patchway
• Peterborough
• Preston
• Reading
• Salisbury
• Shoe Lane
• Southampton (temporary)

• Stevenage
• Stockport
• Stratford
• Swindon
• Swinton
• Taunton
• Truro
• Victoria (temporary)
• Wakefield
• Warrington
• Warwick
• Watford
• Wimbledon
• Wolverhampton