To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate she has made of the number of imams granted entry clearance to work as ministers of religion who could not speak English in each year since 1995. (129075)

Since 2004 ministers of religion applying for entry clearance to the UK to preach are required to have an international English language training system score of four or above in order for their applications to be successful.

There are no figures available from our High Commission in Islamabad to show how many imams who could not speak English may have been issued with visas before this became a requirement of the Immigration Rules.