Immigration Controls
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Chris Grayling (Shadow Home Secretary, Home Affairs; Epsom & Ewell, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for sponsor licences have been received in each of the last 36 months.
Alan Johnson (Home Secretary; Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle, Labour)
The following table show the number of sponsor licence applications received each month since the start of the scheme.
| Number of sponsor license applications received each month since the start of the scheme | |
| Number | |
| 2008 | |
| March | 10 |
| April | 60 |
| May | 45 |
| June | 100 |
| July | 140 |
| August | 365 |
| September | 1,270 |
| October | 3,260 |
| November | 995 |
| December | 1,530 |
| 2009 | |
| January | 1,680 |
| February | 1,815 |
| March | 1,695 |
| April | 1,315 |
| May | 1,155 |
| June | 1,440 |
| July | 1,295 |
| August | 930 |
| September | 1,065 |
| Up to 19 October | 545 |
| Note: The figures quoted are not provided under National Statistics protocols and have been derived from local management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. | |