§ Mr. MalinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list(a) the total receipts generated by application fees for visas, applications for permanent settlement and other immigration applications and (b) the total cost of entry clearance operations for each year for which the figures are known since 1993; and if he will set out the basis on which the costs are calculated identifying the individual elements. [57758]
§ Mr. FatchettThe total receipts generated by application fees for visas and total cost of entry clearance operations from 1993–97 are as follows:
£ million Year Visitor receipts Settlement receipts Total receipts Total costs 1993–94 28.0 2.5 30.5 45.0 1994–95 28.9 3.4 32.3 45.5 1995–96 37.1 5.0 42.2 46.6 1996–97 50.3 6.7 57.0 60.2 1997–98 53.8 9.7 63.5 64.5 Receipts are based on Full Cost recovery, broken down into the following categories:
- a) Staffing Costs: (UK staff salaries and allowances, local staff salaries, benefits and other payments, local travel and other travel)
- b) Accommodation Costs: (rents, including notional rents, furniture, maintenance, utilities and capital charges)
- c) Office Expenditure: (stationery, telephones and postage, transport costs and overheads)
- d) Overheads: (cots allocated from support functions at post, e.g. Management Sections and cost of MVD and support functions in London, e.g. Personnel Command and Resources Command).