Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

Mark Williams
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many international students who have been enrolled in courses of longer than four years duration have been granted visas in each of the last five years.

Mr. Woolas
Figures are as follows:

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|    |Number|
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|2004|6,186 |
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|2005|6,482 |
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|2006|7,776 |
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|2007|6,838 |
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|2008|6,971 |
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