Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employers have (a) applied for and (b) been refused UK Visa and Immigration sponsorship status in each of the last 10 six month periods.

The table below shows the number of applications made by employers for a sponsor licence, and the number of applications that were refused, in each of the last 10 six month periods.

Table 1

Note 1: The number of applications received includes all applications for a sponsor licence under the Tiers and sub-categories that permit employment.

Note 2: Not all applications refused in a given six month period were received in the same six month period.

Note 3: An application for multiple Tiers and/or categories may be partially granted; therefore refusals also includes those application where a licence may have been granted under one Tier, but refused under a different Tier.