To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many student visas have been issued for students to study in the UK in each of the last eight years, broken down by country of origin. (79782)

The hon. Member can find this information in UKvisas' annual published statistics, which are available in the Library of the House. From 2001-02 the relevant statistics are in the section entitled “Part 2: Visa Demand and Outcome of Applications”. Before this, the figures are under “Other categories and DNA”.