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Mr. Madden
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list for the last year for which figures are available (a) the total number of persons who applied for entry clearance as a visitor to the United Kingdom, (b) the total number of refusals and (c) the countries of origin of those who were refused giving the numbers against each. [40196]
Dr. Liam Fox
The total number of applications for entry clearance to visit the UK in 1995 was 1,167,295.The total number of refusals for entry clearance to visit the UK in 1995 was 72,626.The countries of origin of those refused are not currently available. Details will shortly be available from the Home Office's Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 1995.