Home Office written question – answered at on 13 November 2014.
Steve Barclay
Conservative, North East Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the people named in the European Magnitsky Recommendation were granted UK visas in each of the last three years.
James Brokenshire
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security and Immigration)
The Home Office do not routinely comment on individual immigration cases. The Home Office has obligations in law to protect this information. The Immigration Rules allow us to deny entry to those whose presence in this country is not considered to be conducive to the public good and the Home Secretary has the power personally to exclude an individual from the UK.
If we received a visa application from an individual whose name was published on the EU list, then this would be considered in our decision on whether to grant a visa.
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