Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for visas under Tier 2 were made in each month in each of the last five years.
Information on Tier 2 entry clearance visa applications broken down by outcome (grants, refusals, withdrawals, lapsed) is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 table vi_01_q at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2018.