Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of Tier 2 visas which were granted to SMEs in (a) 2017 (b) 2016 (c) 2015 and (d) 2014.
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.
Neither a breakdown by Region or the company an applicant is employed by are available in the published entry clearance data.