Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 30 November 2016 to Questions 50075, 50073 and 50074, how many of those people who have claimed to be stateless since 2013 and were refused status in the UK on that basis have been removed from the UK.

Home Office Stateless policy is designed to assist those who do not qualify for protection but are unable to return to the country of their former habitual residence because they are stateless and would not be admitted to any other country. The requirements are set out in the Immigration Rules and reflect our obligations under the 1954 UN Convention relating to the status of stateless persons.

Home Office shares information on the number of Stateless applications received and those removed with UNHCR. The Home Office continues to provide regular updates to UNHCR. UNHCR releases information on annual global stateless trends. The information requested can be found using the following links:

2015:

http://www.unhcr.org/uk/statistics/unhcrstats/576408cd7/unhcr-global-trends-2015.html

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocAttachment.zip?COMID=576402377

2014:

http://www.unhcr.org/uk/statistics/country/556725e69/unhcr-global-trends-2014.html

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocAttachment.zip?COMID=5762b0584

2013:

http://www.unhcr.org/uk/statistics/country/5399a14f9/unhcr-global-trends-2013.html

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocAttachment.zip?COMID=5762b0d84

The information requested on the latest immigration status of those refused Stateless leave is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.