Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications were rejected because the applicant was late with their tax return in each of the last three years for which data is available.

The specific information that has been requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.

Information on the number of applications and decisions (i.e. grants, refusals, withdrawn and lapsed cases) is published quarterly in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017