HC Deb 27 October 2003 vol 412 cc60-1WS
Mr. Jon Owen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many student visas were granted in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [132920]

Mr. Mullin

The information is as follows:

Student visas granted
year
1998 69,607
1999 75,607
2000 99,559
Financial Year
2001–02 121,466
2002–02 132,890

The table shows the number of student visas issued at entry clearance posts worldwide each year since 1998. Since 2001, statistics have been collated by Financial Year (1 April to 31 March) rather than calendar year.

Mr. Jon Owen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the 20(a) further education institutions and (b) higher education institutions with the highest number of student visas granted for studying at that institution. [132921]

Mr. Mullin

We do not keep centralised records of further education and higher education institutions at which applicants for student visas wish to study. To obtain such figures would incur disproportionate costs.

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