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Immigration: Gurkhas

Volume 493: debated on Thursday 11 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many former soldiers of Gurkha regiments are resident in the UK. (273853)

Since the rules this Government introduced in 2004 came into force, over 6,000 former Gurkhas and family members have been granted settlement in the UK.

It is not possible to disaggregate the number of Gurkhas who are legally resident here in other categories of the immigration rules from other Nepalese citizens without the examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.