Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications were refused and subsequently granted on appeal in (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014.

Appeal outcomes, including data on volumes of appeals that were granted in the time periods specified, can be found at the following website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015

Table 2.5 of the ‘Tribunals and gender recognition statistics tables: January to March 2015’ link sets out the % of appeals determined by the First-tier Tribunal that were granted at appeal.

The information requested in your second question is not held centrally and can only be collated at disproportionate costs.