§ Mr. Tony Lloydasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give details of the percentage of fiancés and husbands refused entry clearance; and what percentage was wholly on grounds of primary purposes and what percentage partly on those grounds.
§ Mr. WaddingtonNearly one half of all applications for entry clearance to the United Kingdom from husbands and fiancés in the Indian subcontinent were refused in 1984. About one third of all applications were refused solely on primary purpose grounds, and about 1 in 25 were refused partly on these grounds. Corresponding information for countries outside the Indian subcontinent is not available.