Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visitor visas have been granted in each of the last five years.

The information requested for the last 5 calendar years is published in table vi_01_q (visa data tables volume 1) in ‘Immigration Statistics, April - June 2016’, available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016/list-of-tables#visas