Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people from each country entered the UK under the Tier 1 (a) entrepreneur and (b) investor sub-category in 2011. [97576]

Damian Green MP; Minister of State: The requested information is not yet available.

Data relating to persons entering the UK under the Tier 1-Entrepreneur and Tier 1-Investor schemes, by nationality, are published annually in table ‘ad.03.w’ of the Home Office statistical release ‘Immigration Statistics’. The latest published data relate to the calendar year 2010 and are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Science website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/scienceresearchstatistics/researchstatistics/immigrationasylumresearch/immigrationq4-2011/

Data for the calendar year 2011 are due for publication in August 2012.