5,570 successful applications up to 31 December 2003

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I can reassure the noble Baroness that, during the two years the scheme has been operating, of the 5,570 people who have been granted leave, only one has not proven to the department's satisfaction at the end of 12 months that he was not economically active and self-sufficient.