Asylum

(asked on 8th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been granted leave to remain since 2000.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 18th January 2016

The Home Office publishes data on asylum initial decisions in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. A total of 166,445 main applicants have been granted asylum or an alternative form of protection since January 2000. An annual breakdown of this total is provided in the attached table.

A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April – June 2015, is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.

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