Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for visas from highly skilled professionals were refused by his Department between February 2014 and March 2018.
The available information relates to outcomes (grants, refusals, withdrawn, lapsed) of visa applications, broken down by category (including Tier 2 skilled work visas) and is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017. The large majority of Tier 2 visa application outcomes are grants.
Information for Q1 (January to March) 2018 is planned to be published on 24 May.
Tier 2 is the main immigration route for skilled work in the UK.