Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many overseas wives have joined their families in the UK between January 2014 and December 2015.

From January 2014 to September 2015 there were 35,990* spousal visas issued to females. We are not able to provide figures from October to December 2015 as visa figures for this period have not yet been published.

*Figure rounded to the nearest 5.