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