Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for Tier 1 (Investor) visas have been refused in each of the last eight years.

Information on the numbers of grants, refusals, withdrawals and lapsed cases for Tier 1 (Investor) visa applications is published quarterly, latest data in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, July – September 2016’, table vi_01_q (visa data tables volume 1), available here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016/list-of-tables#visas

Information on the numbers of admissions on Tier 1 (Investor) visas is published quarterly, latest data in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, July – September 2016’, table ad_02_q (admissions data tables), available here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016/list-of-tables#admissions