Home Office written question – answered at on 9 December 2025.
Blake Stephenson
Conservative, Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas a) the Department for Culture Media and Sport, b) the Arts Council, c) the National Archives, d) the British Library, e) the British Museum, f) Historic England, g) the Imperial War Museum, h) the National Gallery, i) the Science Museum Group, j) the Victoria and Albert Museum, k) the Wallace Collection, l) the BBC, m) Channel 4, n) Historic Royal Palaces and o) the Royal Parks have sponsored since 4 July 2024.
Mike Tapp
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The requested data is not held centrally in a reportable format.
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