Asylum

(asked on 9th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people qualified for asylum in the UK in each of the last three years; and how many of those people were known to be qualified doctors.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 24th March 2020

The Home Office does not record the number of those that have been granted asylum in the UK over the past three years that are known to be qualified

Doctors.

The Home Office publishes a range of data on asylum seekers and refugees in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. The number of asylum grants for the last three years is within the table below and can be found in table ASY_02a of the published Immigration statistics

www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2019/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement

2017

2018

2019

Total grants

6,779

6,931

10,804

Asylum

5,957

5,557

9,404

Humanitarian Protection

146

582

642

Discretionary Leave

84

104

71

UASC Leave

417

344

181

Other Grants

175

344

506

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