Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many graduate entrepreneur visa holders switched to a skilled workers visa under the new rules announced by her Department on 6 September 2013.
The information available indicate there were 23 grants in 2013 of leave to remain in the UK in the Tier 1 high value migrant and Tier 2 skilled worker routes who were recorded as previously holding Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur status.
It is not possible to determine whether the decisions were made under rules announced on 6 September 2013.
The Home Office publishes annual statistics on grants of an extension by previous category in tables expc_01 to expc_01_o within the ‘Immigration Statistics’ release.
A copy of the latest release, ‘Immigration Statistics July - September 2014’ will be available from the Library of the House and is available from
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.