Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of visitor visas granted in India since 2012 in which were compassionate grounds were taken into consideration.

The information you have requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.

The information requested is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by examination of thousands of cases.

However, published information on Visitor visas relating to grants worldwide by nationality, is published quarterly as part of Home Office’s publication scheme, in the ‘Immigration Statistics’, Visas data tables, Volume 3. The latest edition is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018.