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.
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 |