Work Permits: Applications

Mark Pritchard
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many work permits were refused for non-UK born applicants in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008;

(2) how many work permits have been approved for non-UK job applicants for jobs in which no suitably qualified UK-born applicant could be found in 2007-08.

Mr. Woolas
The UK Border Agency only maintains statistics on the nationality of work permit applicants and not their country of birth.