Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the Republic of Ireland have applied to the Frontier Worker scheme.

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the 'Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release'. Data on the number of applications for the Frontier Worker permit, broken down by nationality, are published in table Vis_D01 of the entry clearance visa applications and outcomes detailed dataset. Data for the Frontier Worker permit can be selected using the 'Frontier Worker' visa type subgroup.

The Home Office does not publish data on Frontier Worker permits by country of residence, and so data is not available on Frontier Worker permits issued to persons normally resident in the Republic of Ireland.