PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Visas: Overseas Students (28 October 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2016 to Question 49108, what assessment she has made of the proportion of visa refusals that relate to university admissions; and how many visa applications have related to such admissions in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

Data regarding the number and proportion of visa refusals under Tier 4 of the Points Based System over the last five years can be found within the data tables produced for the immigration statistics, last published in August 2016 including data up to and including June 2016:

All data tables:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016-data-tables

Visa applications table:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546766/entry-visas1-q2-2016-tabs.ods

The data tables do not split the data according to the sponsoring institution type. Whilst this data is recorded in relation to each institution it is not held centrally in such a way as to be available without incurring disproportionate costs.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
3 November 2016