Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people entered the UK on family visas in each year since 1997.

The number of people entering the UK on family visas does not form part of any current transparency data or migration statistics and is not published.

The transparency data and migration statistics do, however, include a range of processing data relating to family visas and can be found at:

Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

and

Migration statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Data on family visas from 1997 to 2011 is not published. Data on family visas is published from 2012 onwards and can be found at:

Migration statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)