§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many non-British citizens resident 76W in the United Kingdom have submitted applications during the past six years for their spouses to be granted permanent settlement in the United Kingdom; and what proportion of such applications were successful and unsuccessful, respectively.
§ Mr. WaddingtonComprehensive information is not collected centrally on the citizenship of the spouses of those applying for entry clearance to or settlement in the United Kingdom. However, the following information is readily available. Over the period 1980 to 1984 about 100 husbands were refused entry clearance in the Indian subcontinent to join their wives in the United Kingdom solely or partly because they were not British citizens and in 1984 about 70 husbands from all countries were refused permission to extend their stay in the United Kingdom solely or partly for the same reason. The numbers of wives settled on removal of time limit at the same time as their husbands, all of whom will have been non-British citizens, were given for the years 1978 to 1984 in table 14 of "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom 1984" (Cmnd. 9544).