Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visitor visas have been (a) applied for and (b) granted for each non-EU country in (i) 2017 and (ii) 2018.

Applications for visit visas are considered against Appendix V of the Immigration Rules and on a case by case basis. Detailed information on how UK Visas and Immigration makes decisions on visitor cases is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance.

Information on total entry clearance visas applications (the majority of which are visitor visas) broken down by nationality and outcome (grants, refusals, withdrawals, lapsed) is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 table vi_02_q at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017.

Corresponding data for Q1 (January to March) 2018 is planned to be published 24 May 2018.