{"id":4572,"date":"2025-07-15T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:50:25","slug":"visas-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4572","title":{"rendered":"Russian Citizens Granted UK Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale\u00a0Conservative, Maldon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ask the&nbsp;Secretary of State&nbsp;for the&nbsp;Home Department, how many visas were issued to citizens of the&nbsp;Russian Federation&nbsp;to visit the&nbsp;UK&nbsp;in each of the last five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seema Malhotra\u00a0The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Home Office&nbsp;publishes data on entry clearance visas by nationality and visa type in the&nbsp;Immigration system statistics&nbsp;publication. Data on visas issued are published in table \u2018Vis_D02\u2019 of the \u2018detailed entry clearance dataset\u2019. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the \u2018Notes\u2019 page of the workbook. The latest data relates up to the end of March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the \u2018Research and statistics calendar\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John asked the Home Secretary for visa statistics, specifically how many Russian citizens received UK visas each year over the past five years, prompting guidance on published data sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5701,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/5701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}