Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sri Lankan nationals have been granted refugee status after having previously been removed to Sri Lanka following a refused application for asylum since 18 May 2009.

Specific information relating exclusively to Sri Lankan nationals is not available in the requested format, however information generally on Asylum applicants granted Asylum, after previously having been refused asylum and removed, is published in the Home Office’s asylum transparency data table ASY_09_q at;

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2018