§ Fiona MactaggartTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list, for each British post abroad which operates a preliminary assessment sift system for people applying for visit visas, how many people(a) were advised to withdraw their applications and (b) followed that advice in 1999. [127110]
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§ Mr. VazI regret that we do not maintain statistics on the number of people advised to withdraw applications. However, our records show that just over 55,000 applicants actually withdrew during 1999. This figure was broken down as follows:
Number Abu Dhabi 60 Accra 1,405 Addis Ababa 2,210 Amman 344 Amsterdam 254 Bangkok 46 Banjul 687 Beirut 3 Bombay 5,212 Bucharest 214 Cairo 302 Calcutta 109 Canberra 52 Casablanca 330 Colombo 13 Copenhagen 40 Damascus 924 Dhaka 1,002 Dubai 192 Dublin 177 Dusseldorf 564 Geneva 105 Islamabad 22,943 Kampala 21 Kiev 1 Kingston 858 Lagos 1,341 Los Angeles 2,435 Madras 1,101 Madrid 2 Manila 119 Nairobi 2 New Delhi 6,078 Oslo 84 Paris 1,741 Quito 819 Rome 349 Sanaa 779 Sarajevo 20 Sofia 1 Stockholm 38 Tehran 1,835 Tunis 493 Wellington 79