Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visitor visas were granted to applicants of each country in each of the last 10 years.

Information on the total number of Tier 5 (Creative and Sporting) and Visitor visa applications and grants is published quarterly.

The most recent information can be found in the Home Office publication ‘Immigration Statistics, April – June 2017’. A breakdown of Tier 5 – Creative and Sporting visa grants by nationality is published in Visas data tables volume 2, table vi_06_q_w and Visitor visa grants by nationality is published in Visas data tables volume 3, table vi_06_q_o , available from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#visas.