Entry Clearances: China

(asked on 8th September 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Nigel Evans Portrait
Nigel Evans
(Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Chinese nationals visited the UK on tourist visas in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.

Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 11th September 2014

Chinese Nationals can visit the UK using a number of visit visas including business, student and other. The number who visited the UK in the last 3 years using an ordinary visit visa, who are most likely to be tourists, is given in the table below:

Chinese nationals given leave to enter the United Kingdom as 'Ordinary Visitors'.
2011139,000
2012157,000
2013252,000
Source: Table ad_03_o Immigration Statistics April-June 2014
Table notes
1. Data for 2013 are provisional figures.
2. Ordinary visitors are admitted to the Uk for a period not exceeding 6 months on condition they do not work, reside in the UK for long periods or access public funds.
3. Data have been rounded to the nearest 1,000



The Home Office publishes annual statistics on persons entering the UK as visitors by nationality in table ad_03_o (Admissions) within the ‘Immigration Statistics’ release. It is not possible to say how many of these visited for the purpose of tourism.

A copy of the latest release, ‘Immigration Statistics April - June 2014’ is available from the Library of the House and from https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

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