Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for standard visitor visas her Department received in each year from 2006 to 2016; and how many such applications were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful.

Information on the number of all visit visa applications, grants, refusals, withdrawals and lapsed cases is published quarterly; latest data in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, July – September 2016’, table vi_01_q (visa data tables volume 1), available at www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016/list-of-tables#visas