Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many visas for family reunion in the UK were issued in 2016 for (1) children, and (2) adult women; and how many such applications were rejected in that year.

The Home Office regularly publishes statistics on family reunion applications (the latest of which as published in December 2016 and can be found:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016

Beyond this, we are unable to provide a breakdown of the statistics by age/gender in the manner requested. In order to do so, the department would have to interrogate individual case records, at disproportionate cost.