Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for visitor visas his Department has received since 2005.

Information on Visitor entry clearance visa applications and outcomes (granted, refused, withdrawn, lapsed) is published on a quarterly basis in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics’, Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition with data up to Q3 (July-September) 2018 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#visas

Corresponding information for Q4 (October-December) 2018 is planned to be published on 28 February.