§ Mr. GerrardTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many applications for visit visas have been refused at the high commissions in(a) Colombo, (b) Islamabad, (c) Delhi, (d) Accra and (e) Istanbul, and what proportion of total applications this represents, in each of the last four years, and in the current year to date. [61000]
§ Mr. FatchettThe numbers of visit visas refused so far this year in(a) Colombo, (b) Islamabad, (c) Delhi, (d) Accra and (e) Istanbul are as follows:
January to October 1998 Issued Refused Percentage of total visit applications processed Colombo 11,950 427 3.4 Islamabad 32,429 6,249 16.2 Delhi 52,925 4,665 8.1 Accra 17,944 4,136 18.7 Istanbul 49,597 2,222 4.2 Global Entry Clearance Statistics for the years 1994–97 inclusive have recently been made available to the House of Commons Library. These contain the other information requested in respect of previous years.