Immigrants
(asked on 6th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals aged (a) between 15 and 64 and (b) over 65 from each non-EEA country were granted indefinite leave to stay in the UK in each year from 1997-98 to 2014-15.
The available data is provided in the table below:
Grants of settlement on removal of time limit, by age | ||||||
Year | Total Grants | Children (under 16) |
| 65+ | Age unknown | |
2010 | 234,707 | 43,776 | 188,550 | 2,186 | 195 | |
2011 | 160,994 | 30,405 | 128,690 | 1,845 | 54 | |
2012 | 124,473 | 21,958 | 101,160 | 1,336 | 19 | |
2013 | 152,238 | 24,235 | 126,433 | 1,557 | 13 | |
2014 | 102,413 | 15,428 | 86,178 | 805 | 2 | |
Source: | ||||||
Home Office: Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, summary of data in table se_05 | ||||||
Table notes: | ||||||
1. Excludes EEA nationals. | ||||||
2. Excludes a small minority of persons given settlement on arrival (1,644 in 2014) | ||||||
The latest Home Office immigration statistics on grants of settlement (permanent residence) by age are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics .
Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 25 August 2016.