Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with spouses or partners with UK citizenship have (a) applied for, (b) been refused and (c) been granted indefinite leave to remain in each of the last five years.
The available information is given in the tables below:
Grants and refusals of settlement (indefinite leave to remain) to spouses/partners | |||||||
on the basis of marriage to/a relationship with a British citizen or settled person | |||||||
Year | All Partners (spouses and partners: UK or settled persons) | of which: | Sponsor is a British Citizen (1) | ||||
Grants | Refusals | Grants | Refusals | ||||
2010 | 53,147 | 1,116 | 46,572 | : | |||
2011 | 41,684 | 534 | 36,393 | : | |||
2012 | 37,399 | 498 | 32,741 | : | |||
2013 | 50,498 | 774 | 43,633 | : | |||
2014 | 28,230 | 968 | 24,042 | : | |||
Source: | |||||||
Table notes | |||||||
(1) excludes unmarried partners | |||||||
: = Not available. |
Information on applications and refusals for spouses or partners of UK citizens is not available and could only be produced at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case records.
Corresponding data for calendar year 2015 is planned to be published on 25 August 2016.