Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications have been received by UK Visas and Immigration in each of the last five years.
Information on the number of visa applications, grants, refusals, withdrawals and lapsed cases is published quarterly. The latest data is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas