Nick Gibb
Chair, Draft Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) visas have been issued since their introduction in April 2012.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
holding answer
The published statistics on out of country visas to the United Kingdom issued and in country extensions of stay granted to main applicants in the Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) category are provided in the following table:
| Out of country visas to the United Kingdom issued and in-country extensions of stay granted to Tier 1—Graduate Entrepreneurs | ||
| Quarter | Out of country visas issued | In-country grants of extensions |
| 2012 Q3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 0 | 27 |
| 2013 Q1 | 0 | 66 |
| 2013 Q2 | 0 | 36 |
| Notes: 1. Excludes dependants. 2. Data are provisional. Source: Immigration Statistics, April to June 2013. table be_01_q and table ex_01_q | ||
The latest Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas and extensions of stay are published in the release Immigration Statistics April to June 2013, which is available from the Library of the House and on the Department's website at:
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