Office for Product Safety and Standards: Accountability
(asked on )
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the total number of refugees and asylum seekers from Syria resident in the UK.
This question was answered on 12th May 2014
While published statistics provide data on the number of Syrian's who have
applied for asylum in the UK (4,714 between 2001-2013), how many have been
granted refugee status (2,182) or refused (2,065) and how many have been
removed (305 between 2004 and 2013), it is not possible to confirm the total
number of refugees and asylum seekers from Syria resident in the UK.