Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative estimate she has made of the number of people granted refugees status in the last 3 years, and those granted by (a) France, (b) Germany, (c) Spain, (d) Italy and (e) Greece over that period.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of people granted refugee status in the UK in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

Data on the numbers of people granted asylum at initial decision, as well as the number of people granted refugee status through resettlement schemes are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data are up to end of March 2020

Eurostat publish comparative numbers for EU member states, as well as the EEA and Switzerland. The latest data relate to the year ending December 2019.

Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘Asylum and resettlement summary tables’ . The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on Asylum and resettlement.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’. https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=relevance