Asylum: Bahrain

(asked on 13th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Bahrainis have been granted asylum or other protection status in the United Kingdom since January 2011.


Answered by
Lord Bates Portrait
Lord Bates
This question was answered on 22nd July 2015

There were 62 Bahraini nationals granted asylum or other form of protection in the UK from January 2011 to March 2015, based on initial decisions for main applicants.

The figure provided is published in the Immigration Statistics Release by the Home Office, in Table as_01_q “Asylum applications and initial decisions for main applicants by country of nationality”, available from the link below.

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

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 the Library of the House.

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