Overseas Visitors: Japan

Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Japanese citizens visited the UK in (a) 2007 and (b) 2006.

Mr. Woolas
The number of Japanese nationals given leave to enter the United Kingdom as visitors in 2006 and 2007 is given in the following table. The information shown is based on landing card information and may include the same individuals more than once if they visited the United Kingdom on multiple occasions in the period.

Statistics on passengers given leave to enter the United Kingdom by purpose of journey and nationality are published annually in table 2.3 of the Home Office publications “Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom” which are available in the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb1008.pdf.

Table 2.3 gives details of other reasons that Japanese nationals entered the UK each year.

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|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |Number of journeys|
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|Passengers admitted, by purpose of journey                                                                                                                                                                                                           |20061             |20072, 3|
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|Total admitted                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |563,000           |521,000|
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|of which:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |                  ||
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|Visitors                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |339,000           |318,000|
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|of which:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |                  ||
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|Ordinary                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |238,000           |217,000|
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|Business                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |102,000           |101,000|
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|1 Due to some gaps in the data from ports, estimates have been used.2 May understate due to some administrative records on non-EEA nationals being unavailable for statistical analysis.3 Provisional.Note:Data rounded to three significant figures.|                  ||
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