Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims from people from Yemen were pending for the duration of (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.

As at the end of 2014 and 2015 respectively, 66 and 73 asylum applications were pending a decision (initial decision, appeal or further review).

The Home Office publishes quarterly figures on asylum applications pending a decision in table as_01_q of the Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, is available from:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

Pending cases are those asylum applications, including fresh claims, lodged since 1 April 2006 which are still under consideration at the end of the reference period.