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Mr. Geoffrey Robinson
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Filipino wives of United Kingdom husbands applied from Manila for settlement visas in the United Kingdom in (a) 1992, (b) 1993 and (c) 1994; and how many were refused. [35659]
Mr. Hanley
The information is not available in the form requested.Application for settlement visas were received in Manila as follows:
| Received | Refused | |
| 1992 | 917 | 359 |
| 1993 | 702 | 321 |
| 1994 | 807 | 257 |
Mr. Robinson
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if the number of refusals of applications for permanent settlement made from Manila is in line with refusals from other overseas posts. [35660]
Mr. Hanley
The settlement refusal rate for Manila in 1994 was 31.8 per cent. The global average was 21.6 per cent. and the average for south east Asia was 18.4 per cent.