Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many individuals entered the UK under the Youth Mobility Scheme in each of the past five years from (1) Hong Kong, and (2) Taiwan; and how many UK citizens entered each of those countries under that scheme in the same period.

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas, including Youth Mobility Scheme visas, by nationality in the 'Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release'.

[https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release]

Data on grants of visa applications are published in table 'Vis_D02' of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset.

[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk]

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the 'Notes' page of the workbook.

The below data is found in the latest Immigration System Statistics release, published on 27 February, for data up to December 2024.

Youth Mobility Scheme visas granted by year and nationality

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the 'Research and statistics calendar'.

[https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=relevance]

Information on UK citizens entering other countries on youth mobility schemes is either not centrally held or currently available from the published statistics, and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.