Speeches

Mary Creagh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2015-11-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many transit visas her Department issued to Syrian nationals in each year since 2010.

James Brokenshire

The information requested is provided in the table below:

Entry clearance transit visas granted to Syrian nationals

Year

Granted

2010

72

2011

42

2012

50

2013

41

2014

20

2015 January-June

9

Source: Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, Home Office, tables vi_06_q_o.

The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April-June 2015’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics