Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Tier 1 general, (b) Tier 1 graduate entrepreneur, (c) Tier 1 exceptional talent, (d) Tier 1 investor, (e) Tier 4 general, (f) Tier 4 child and (g) short-term student visas were issued in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017.

Information on Tier 1, Tier 4, and short-term study (previously referred to as ‘student visitor’) grants (by calendar year) is published quarterly; latest data in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, October - December 2016’, Visa data tables volume 1, table vi_04, available from the https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/list-of-tables#visas

Published tables do not contain visa figures for 2017. Our next released publication, on May 25, will contain Q1 2017 figures.