Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications her Department has received for standard visitor visas from China in each of the last 10 years; and how many such applications were successful.

Information on the total number of Visitor visa applications and decisions is published quarterly.

The most recent information can be found in the Home Office publication ‘Immigration Statistics, April – June 2017’. A breakdown of total Visitor visa applications, grants and refusals is published in Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q and Visitor visa grants, by nationality, is published in Visas data tables volume 3, table vi_06_q_o, available from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas.