Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decisions were made from within the UK for (a) entry clearance and (b) extension of stay in relation to non-European Economic Area partner applications in each year since 2008; and how many of those applications were (i) successful, (ii) unsuccessful, (iii) withdrawn and (iv) lapsed.

The available published information is shown in the following tables,

TABLE 1

TABLE 2

The figures provided relate to partners in the family immigration category.

Withdrawn and lapsed applications are not available in the published extensions data.

The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on entry clearance visa decisions by category in table vi_01_q (Entry clearance visas tables volume 1) and extension of stay decisions in table ex_01_q within the ‘Immigration Statistics’ release. The published statistics do not distinguish between applications made and decided under the family Immigration Rules in force before and from 9 July 2012. Grants and other case resolutions do not necessarily correspond to an application made in the same period.

A copy of the latest release, “Immigration Statistics January to March 2015”, is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release. A copy will be placed in the Library of the House.