Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fully qualified foreign doctors have been declined Tier 2 visas in each of the last three years.

Information on the number of applications and decisions (i.e. grants, refusals, withdrawn and lapsed cases) of Tier 2 & pre-PBS equivalent entry clearance visas are published quarterly in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017