§ Fiona MactaggartTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people in(a) Islamabad, (b) Karachi, (c) Bombay, (d) New Delhi, (e) Calcutta, (f) Madras, (g) Colombo, (h) Jamaica, (i) Barbados, (j) Russia, (k) Poland, (l) Zimbabwe, (m) Ghana, (n) Bangladesh, (o) Lagos and (p) Abuja 179W (i) applied for, (ii) were granted and (iii) were refused entry clearance as visitors in (a) 1998 and (b) 1999 to the latest date for which figures are available. [81686]
§ Mr. Tony LloydThe figures requested are as follows:
1999 figures will not be available until posts complete their 1999 Annual Statistical Return early in the year 2000. Figures are collated in this way on an annual basis only and could be obtained in the interim only at disproportionate cost.
Visit visa applications 1998 Post Received Issued Refused Islamabad 38,250 26,737 5,615 Karachi 27,536 22,270 3,116 Bombay 61,450 55,957 4,528 Calcutta1 n/a n/a n/a Madras 23,544 23,065 837 Colombo 13,999 12,714 510 Kingston 3,203 2,957 161 Bridgetown 688 615 57 Moscow 76,976 73,172 2,077 St. Petersburg 14,279 13,621 636 Ekaterinburg 2,921 2,837 64 Warsaw 1,139 980 109 Harare 1,511 1,258 258 Accra 22,159 16,130 4,826 Dhaka 12,822 9,823 2,776 Lagos 42,913 29,840 8,351 Abuja 11,331 9,962 1,421 New Delhi 57,804 50,538 7,742 1 The figures for Calcutta are not yet available