Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2022 to Question 64270 on Visas: Overseas Students, whether her Department holds data on the number of recipients of international student visas that are accompanied by (a) five and (b) six dependents; what steps her Department is taking to monitor this information; and what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's monitoring processes of this information.

The Home Office regularly reviews available data to inform operational processes and policies.

Information on our immigration routes, including overall volumes of dependants for each route is available as part of our transparency data and can be found at: Visas and Citizenship data: Q2 2022.