Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for family reunification with a beneficiary of international protection were received (a) in total and (b) from each nationality in 2018.

The Home Office does not record information specifically on “family reunification with a beneficiary of international protection”.Information relating to refugee family reunion applications received in total, from each nationality and how many were accepted in 2018 is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables

All those issued a family reunion visa are granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, not asylum. The family reunion application process does not require an assessment of the applicant’s international protection needs. It is the family member in the UK that is required to have been granted refugee status or Humanitarian Protection.