Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many tier 2 visas were awarded to licensed sponsors based in Scotland for each month from December 2016 to April 2018.

The specific information requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office. The number of Tier 2 visas awarded to licensed sponsors can be found on the Home Office website. Published data on Tier 2 Visas can be found in the immigration statistics release.

The available published Tier 2 information relates to outcomes (grants, refusals, withdrawn, lapsed) of visa applications, broken down by visa type (including Tier 2 skilled visas) and is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume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.