Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visit visa applications have been refused in each year since 2000.

Home Office published statistics on visitor entry clearance visas start from 2005.

Information on visitor entry clearance visa applications and outcomes (grants, refusals, withdrawn and lapsed cases) is published on a quarterly basis as part of the Home Office publication scheme, in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics’, Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q.

The latest edition can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#visas