Asylum: Eritrea
(asked on 1st July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Eritrean citizens have been (a) granted and (b) refused asylum in the UK since 2010.
The following table shows the latest published number of nationals of Eritrea that have been granted and refused asylum or other form of protection, based on initial decisions for main applicants between 2010 and Quarter 1 2015.
| Number of nationals of Eritrea granted asylum or other form of protection and refusals in the UK (main applicants), 2010 to 2015 Q1, based on initial decisions (1) | ||
| Year/Quarter | Total Grants (2) | Total Refusals |
| 2010 | 558 | 364 |
| 2011 | 647 | 221 |
| 2012 | 589 | 118 |
| 2013 | 787 | 173 |
| 2014 | 2,156 | 328 |
| 2015 Q1 | 543 | 160 |
| (1) Initial decisions do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period and exclude the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions. | ||
| (2) Total grants include: a) asylum grants b) Humanitarian Protection, c) Discretionary Leave, d) Grants under family and private life rules, which relate to the introduction of a new approach to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, from 9 July 2012, e) Leave Outside the Rules, which was introduced for those refused asylum from 1 April 2013; and f) UASC leave, which was introduced for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children refused asylum but eligible for temporary leave from 1 April 2013. | ||
The figures provided in the table are published by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release, in Table as_01 and as_01q.
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on asylum applications and initial decisions within the Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics January – March 2015 is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release and the Library of the House.