Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visitor visa applications have been refused 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