Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications her Department received for refugee family reunion visas on the basis of exceptional compelling compassionate circumstances outside the immigration rules for each country and year since 2010.
The data is not recorded centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Published statistics on visa applications in the Family category can be found online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638590/entry-visas1-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods