Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many academics have been refused visas to travel to the UK for work-related purposes by his Department in each of the last five years.

UKVI does not publish statistics categorised by an applicant’s profession or in this level of detail with regard to the purpose of visit.

The available statistics on grants and refusals by entry clearance visa category, including work and visitor visa routes, are published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 table vi_01_q, latest edition at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#visas