Entry Clearances
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many civil and unmarried partners of UK residents who are from outside the European Economic Area have been admitted to the UK in each of the last five years.
Phil Woolas (Minister of State (the North West), Home Office; Oldham East & Saddleworth, Labour)
holding answer
The available information is provided in the following table.
Statistics on passengers given leave to enter the United Kingdom by purpose of journey are published in table 1.2 of the Home Office publication "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2008" which is available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html
| Passengers( 1, 2) entering the United Kingdom as civil and unmarried partners, 2004-08, United Kingdom | |||||
| Number of journeys | |||||
| 2004( 3) | 2005 | 2006 | 2007( 4) | 2008( 5) | |
| Total civil partners(6) | n/a | n/a | 105 | 1,890 | 1,955 |
| Of which: | |||||
| Proposed civil partner | n/a | n/a | 5 | * | 5 |
| Civil partner admitted for a probationary period | n/a | n/a | 100 | 1,890 | 1,930 |
| Civil partner given indefinite leave to enter | n/a | n/a | — | — | 20 |
| Total unmarried partners(7) | 90 | 115 | 290 | 190 | 335 |
| Of which: | |||||
| Common law spouse admitted for a probationary period(8) | 45 | 55 | 110 | 110 | 295 |
| Same sex partner admitted for probationary period(9) | 50 | 55 | 185 | 80 | 40 |
| n/a = Not applicable. (1) Figures rounded to the nearest 5 (— = 0, * = 1 or 2). Figures may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. (2) Excludes EEA and Swiss nationals. (3) Includes nationals of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia before 1 May 2004, but excludes them from this date. (4) Excludes Bulgaria and Romania. (5) Provisional figures. (6) The Civil Partnership Act 2004 came into force on 5 December 2005. (7) In table 2.1 of Control of Immigration Statistics United Kingdom 2008 the figure for 'civil and unmarried partners and proposed civil partners' for 2006 excludes unmarried partners. This will be corrected in table 1 of Control of Immigration Statistics Summary, United Kingdom July to September 2009, scheduled for publication on 26 November 2009. (8) Includes common-law spouse of a diplomat admitted for a probationary period. (9) Includes same sex partner of a diplomat admitted for a probationary period. Source: Migration Statistics, Home Office. | |||||