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Commons · Question 12515 · Tabled 4 Nov 2024 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 11 Nov 2024

Question

Asked by Kim Johnson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a human rights impact assessment of the transition from Biometric Resident Permits to eVisas.

Answer

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 11 Nov 2024

An Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) was completed on the first phase of the roll out of eVisas to EEA nationals on 9 November 2020, which built on the Policy Equality Statement (PES) for the EUSS which was produced in 2017 and published on the gov.uk webs...