Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were granted entry to reside in the UK on the basis of ties to a family member in the UK in each of the last seven years; how many of those people were under the age of 25; and how many applications were made on that basis in that same period.

Statistical information on people coming to the UK for family reasons is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, in the section “Why do people come to the UK? (4) For family reasons” at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/why-do-people-come-to-the-uk-4-for-family-reasons

The available information relates to entry clearance visa applications and grants by category and applicant type, published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas data tables Volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017/list-of-tables#visas.

Neither an age breakdown nor the underlying reasons for an application are available in the published entry clearance visa data.