Ukraine: Travellers
(asked on 24th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many refugees from Iraq have been (1) granted asylum under the UN mandate or gateway scheme, and (2) granted asylum whilst resident in the UK.
Answered by
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Home Office publishes figures on asylum and resettlement by nationality in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.
The numbers of Iraqis resettled under the Mandate and Gateway schemes, from 2013 to 2015, are given in Table A. The numbers of grants of asylum or other forms of protection, at initial decision, to Iraqi nationals, from 2011 to 2015 are provided in Table B.
Table A: Iraqi refugees (and others) resettled, including dependants, 2013 to 2015 | |||||
Year | Gateway Protection Programme | Mandate Scheme | |||
2013 | 121 | 11 | |||
2014 | 107 | 6 | |||
2015 | 102 | 4 | |||
Source: table as_019_q, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, Home Office | |||||
Table B: Grants of asylum or other forms of protection to Iraqi nationals, main applicants only, 2011 to 2015 | ||||||
Year | Total grants | |||||
2011 | 80 | |||||
2012 | 54 | |||||
2013 | 69 | |||||
2014 | 116 | |||||
2015 | 216 | |||||
Table Notes: | ||||||
Source: Table as_01_q, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, Home Office | ||||||
(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) Figures for 'Total grants' include: grants of asylum, humanitarian protection, discretionary leave, grants under family and private life rules, Leave Outside the Rules and UASC leave | ||||||
(3) 2015 data are provisional and subject to update. | ||||||
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics, October to December 2015, is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015.