§ Mr. BradleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were refused entry clearance to come to the United Kingdom or to vary their leave once in the United Kingdom on grounds of(a) lack of maintenance, (b) lack of maintenance and accommodation and (c) lack of accommodation, in each year since 1986.
§ Mr. Charles Wardle[holding answer 5 February 1993]: The available information is given in the tables for spouses, fiances and children refused entry clearance or variation of leave on the grounds of lack of accommodation, or of maintenance or of both accommodation and maintenance. For entry clearance refusals, information is available only for the Indian sub-continent.
441W1 Excluding dependants.
2 Information on refusals of dependent children is not separately identifiable in the statistics.
3 January-September—Information for the fourth quarter of 1992 is not yet available.
4 Refusals solely on the grounds of maintenance or accommodation, excluding those refusals made on the grounds of primary purpose and accommodation or maintenance.
5 Refusal of settlement after probationary year on general considerations, including recourse to public funds.
Refusals1 of entry clearance, solely on grounds of lack of accommodation, or maintenance or both accommodation and maintenance, for husbands, wives, fiances and children from the Indian sub-Continent, 1986–1992 (January-September)2. Indian sub-Continent Number of persons Category of refusal 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 21992 Accommodation Husbands 1 1 — — 1 7 8 Wives — 4 5 10 15 17 19 Male fiancés 1 1 1 2 2 — — Female fiancées — — — 2 1 3 1 Children — 5 — 1 24 16 14 Maintenance Husbands — 1 1 6 8 11 31 Wives — 1 — 6 33 34 70 Male fiancés 3 — 3 — 3 1 2 Female fiancées — — — — — 3 2 Children 1 2 3 6 31 10 24 Maintenance and accommodation Husbands 1 8 12 17 44 48 71 Wives 9 13 12 97 164 122 128 Male fiancés — 1 5 3 3 3 3 Female fiancées 1 1 3 4 6 17 6 Children 7 8 10 152 326 122 61 1 Excluding dependents. 2 January to September—Information for the fourth quarter of 1992 is not yet available.