Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the additional (a) visa fees and (b) immigration health surcharge costs that (i) applicants and (ii) their families will be required to pay following the extension of the qualifying period for Indefinite Leave to Remain from five years to ten years.

Fees for immigration and nationality applications are kept under review.

Relevant impact assessments will be carried out in relation to the earned settlement proposals, which were set out in the Immigration White Paper.