§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people applied from Islamabad for(a) visitor visas and (b) permanent settlement in the UK in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [93427]
§ Mr. RammellThe number of settlement and non-settlement applications received in Islamabad since 1997 is given below:
Settlement Non-settlement 1997 9,183 23,828 1998 10,837 38,250 1999 10,279 40,537 2000 9,956 54,390 2001 1 2,595 13,256 April 2001 to March 2002 10,271 65,149 April 2002 to December 2002 2,005 37,774 1 These figures are for the period January to March 2001. During 2000 UK visas changed to collecting annual statistics over a financial year period.