Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have been refused visas because of criminal convictions in their home countries in each of the last five years.

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on visas refused are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset. However, this information is not broken down by reason for refusal. Further information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates up to the end of June 2024.