Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) EU and (b) non-EU nationals were granted Tier 5 Visas to volunteer for charities in the UK as international volunteers in (i) 2020-21 and 2021-22.

The Home Office publishes data on visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of applications and the number of granted applications regarding Temporary Work – Charity Worker visas (previously Tier 5) are published in tables Vis_D01 and Vis_D02 of the entry clearance visas applications and outcomes dataset, respectively. This data is broken down by nationality and region, including an EU breakdown.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending June 2022.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.