Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people overstayed temporary working visas in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.

The Home Office does not publish statistics on people who overstay. Visa data relating to Tier 5 – temporary worker and youth mobility are published in entry clearance tables volume 1, table vi_01_q and can be found via the following link. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/734162/entry-visas1-jun-2018-tables.ods