Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications were processed by UK Visas and Immigration in the last five years; and what proportion of those applications were rejected the first time each such application was submitted.

The available information is published in the Home Office’s quarterly ‘Immigration Statistics, July - September 2016’, (visa data tables volume 1) table vi_01_q, available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016/list-of-tables#visas