Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Commonwealth countries entered the country in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15.

The available published information is given in the table below:

Commonwealth nationals given leave to enter the United Kingdom 2010 - 2013

2010 4,810,000

2011 4,930,000

2012 4,680,000

2013 4,870,000

Data for the calendar year 2014 are due to be published on 27 August 2015. The latest Home Office immigration statistics relating to persons entering the United Kingdom by nationality are published in “Immigration Statistics January to March 2015”, table ad_03 (Admissions tables) which is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release and is in the Library of the House.