Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for Leave to Remain made outside the rules have been granted in the last 12 months.

Information on total grants and refusals of in-country applications for leave to remain is published in the Home Office’s quarterly Immigration Statistics, Extensions tables, the latest edition is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#extensions

See tab ex_01_q. Leave outside the rules and discretionary leave decisions fall under ‘other’ in column B.

Applications made outside of the rules can result in grants of leave within the rules and these are recorded in the category under which they are granted.