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Mr. Gordon Prentice
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people applied from Islamabad for (a) visitor visas and (b) permanent settlement in the UK in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [93427]
Mr. Rammell
The number of settlement and non-settlement applications received in Islamabad since 1997 is given below:
| Settlement | Non-settlement | |
| 1997 | 9,183 | 23,828 |
| 1998 | 10,837 | 38,250 |
| 1999 | 10,279 | 40,537 |
| 2000 | 9,956 | 54,390 |
| 2001 1 | 2,595 | 13,256 |
| April 2001 to March 2002 | 10,271 | 65,149 |
| April 2002 to December 2002 | 2,005 | 37,774 |
| 1 These figures are for the period January to March 2001. During 2000 UK visas changed to collecting annual statistics over a financial year period. | ||