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Written Question
Entry Clearances: Australia
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriage visa applications from Australian nationals were overturned on appeal in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

The information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Entry Clearances: Canada
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriage visa applications from Canadian nationals were overturned on appeal by her Department in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

The information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Entry Clearances: Australia
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriage visa applications from Australian nationals her Department received in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016; and how many of those were (i) accepted, (ii) rejected and (iii) rejected for failing to meet the income threshold requirement in each of those years.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Information on the number of Family: Partner applications, and the number of cases resolved (i.e. decisions, of which how many were granted or refused), is published quarterly. This is avalable at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017/list-of-tables#visas

It is not possible to separately identify applications made or decided under the previous or new rules. Not all of the family route statistics from 9 July 2012 onwards relate to the new Immigration Rules. Further details are provided in the ‘Family’ section of the User Guide to Home Office Immigration Statistics, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9


Written Question
Entry Clearances: Canada
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriage visa applications from Canadian nationals her Department received in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016; and how many of those were (i) accepted, (ii) rejected and (iii) rejected for failing to meet the income threshold requirement in each of those years.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Information on the number of Family: Partner applications, and the number of cases resolved (i.e. decisions, of which how many were granted or refused), is published quarterly. This is avalable at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017/list-of-tables#visas

It is not possible to separately identify applications made or decided under the previous or new rules. Not all of the family route statistics from 9 July 2012 onwards relate to the new Immigration Rules. Further details are provided in the ‘Family’ section of the User Guide to Home Office Immigration Statistics, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9


Written Question
Entry Clearances: USA
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriage visa applications from American nationals her Department received in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016; and how many of those were (i) accepted, (ii) rejected and (iii) rejected for failing to meet the income threshold requirement in each of those years.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Information on the number of Family: Partner applications, and the number of cases resolved (i.e. decisions, of which how many were granted or refused), is published quarterly. This is avalable at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017/list-of-tables#visas

It is not possible to separately identify applications made or decided under the previous or new rules. Not all of the family route statistics from 9 July 2012 onwards relate to the new Immigration Rules. Further details are provided in the ‘Family’ section of the User Guide to Home Office Immigration Statistics, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9


Written Question
Entry Clearances: Pakistan
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriage visa applications from Pakistani nationals her Department received in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016; and how many of those were (i) accepted, (ii) rejected and (iii) rejected for failing to meet the income threshold requirement in each of those years.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Information on the number of Family: Partner applications, and the number of cases resolved (i.e. decisions, of which how many were granted or refused), is published quarterly. This is avalable at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017/list-of-tables#visas

It is not possible to separately identify applications made or decided under the previous or new rules. Not all of the family route statistics from 9 July 2012 onwards relate to the new Immigration Rules. Further details are provided in the ‘Family’ section of the User Guide to Home Office Immigration Statistics, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9


Written Question
Entry Clearances: India
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriage visa applications from Indian nationals her Department received in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016; and how many of those were (i) accepted, (ii) rejected and (iii) rejected for failing to meet the income threshold requirement in each of those years.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Information on the number of Family: Partner applications, and the number of cases resolved (i.e. decisions, of which how many were granted or refused), is published quarterly. This is avalable at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017/list-of-tables#visas

It is not possible to separately identify applications made or decided under the previous or new rules. Not all of the family route statistics from 9 July 2012 onwards relate to the new Immigration Rules. Further details are provided in the ‘Family’ section of the User Guide to Home Office Immigration Statistics, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9


Written Question
Entry Clearances: Bangladesh
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriage visa applications from Bangladeshi nationals her Department received in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016; and how many of those applications were (i) accepted, (ii) rejected and (iii) rejected for failing to meet the income threshold requirement in each of those years.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Information on the number of Family: Partner applications, and the number of cases resolved (i.e. decisions, of which how many were granted or refused), is published quarterly. This is avalable at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2017/list-of-tables#visas

It is not possible to separately identify applications made or decided under the previous or new rules. Not all of the family route statistics from 9 July 2012 onwards relate to the new Immigration Rules. Further details are provided in the ‘Family’ section of the User Guide to Home Office Immigration Statistics, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9


Written Question
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Tuesday 5th September 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what compensation payments her Department has made at the request of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in each of the last three years.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The Home Office does not hold the data in the format requested. This data is not held centrally and to obtain it would therefore exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.


Written Question
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Tuesday 10th January 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the total amount of compensation payments it has made at the request of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in each of the last five years.

Answered by Sarah Newton

I am sorry but this information is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.