Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications were refused in each year of the last 5 years, broken down by visa category.

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas, by visa type, in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on outcomes of visa applications, including refusals, are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data is from January 2005 up to the end of March 2026.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.