Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2017 to Question 66773, whether her Department (a) records, (b) collates and (c) publishes the reasons for which visas are refused which have been set out to the applicant at the time of refusal.

The Home Office retains records of visa decisions, including the reasons for refusal, on internal casework systems. This information is not collated in central statistical databases, and is not recorded in a format suitable for publication.