Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons her Department's Migration Statistics do not capture the number of applications (a) received, (b) granted and (c) rejected for visas under the adult dependent relative rule.

Home Office Migration Statistics capture data on a number of Adult Dependent Relative routes, which are grouped together with other routes under Family: Other (for immediate settlement) in our published data. This includes the number of applications received, granted and refused.

However, not all Adult Dependent Relative applications are captured under the Adult Dependent Relative route, to capture accurate data would require a manual trawl of cases and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.