To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) Gurkhas and (b) other foreign nationals who have served in the armed services have been granted the right to settle in the UK in each of the last 20 years. (277070)

The number of main applicants granted settlement as a former member of the armed forces is set out in the following table.

Data from earlier than 2004 is not available.

Please note this is Management Information and is not a National Statistic.