Immigration: Commonwealth
(asked on 22nd June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Commonwealth countries were refused indefinite leave to remain in the UK in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15.
The available information is given in the table below:
| Grants and refusals of settlement to Commonwealth citizens | |||||
| Year | Grants | Refusals | |||
| 2010 | 123,901 | 8,865 | |||
| 2011 | 90,437 | 5,935 | |||
| 2012 | 74,915 | 3,007 | |||
| 2013 | 87,692 | 4,818 | |||
Data for the calendar year 2014 are planned to be published on 27 August 2014
The latest Home Office immigration statistics relating to persons granted and refused settlement (indefinite leave to enter or remain) by nationality are published in the “Immigration Statistics January to March 2015”, (settlement tables se_03 and se_06), available from the Library of the House and the Home Office website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release