Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prospective PhD students were (a) granted and (b) refused a visa to study in the UK in each year for which data is available.

The available information relates to total Tier 4 visas granted and refused, published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition a

t https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#visas.

For the calendar year 2018, 98% of cases were granted.

Corresponding information relating to the level of course is not available from centrally collated statistical databases.