Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) student visitor visas and (b) visitor visas for academics were (i) applied for and (ii) turned down in each year since 2009-10.

Information on applications for, and refusals of, short term study (previously referred to as 'student visitor') visas and for total visitor visas (which include academics using visitor visas) is published in table vi_01_q (Visa data tables volume 1) in 'Immigration Statistics, April-June 2016', available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016/list-of-tables#visas