Asylum: Finance
(asked on 9th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people received support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in the last year for which they have records, broken down by nationality.
At the end of 2014, there were 4,994 failed asylum seekers and their dependants receiving support under Section 4.
The figures provided in the table are a subset of latest statistics published in the Immigration Statistics Release by the Home Office, in Table as_18_q "Asylum seekers in receipt of Section 4 or Section 98 support, and decisions to grant Section 4 support as at the end of the quarter", available from the link below.
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on people receiving support within the Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October – December 2014 is available from
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release and will be placed in the Library of the House
Failed asylum seekers and their dependants in receipt of Section 4 support, by nationality as at the end of 2014 | |
Country of nationality | Total supported under Section 4 |
Afghanistan | 123 |
Albania | 29 |
Algeria | 90 |
Angola | 30 |
Armenia | 4 |
Azerbaijan | 5 |
Bahrain | 1 |
Bangladesh | 18 |
Barbados | 1 |
Belarus | 2 |
Benin | 3 |
Botswana | 4 |
Brazil | 1 |
Burkina | 1 |
Burma | 6 |
Burundi | 8 |
Cameroon | 32 |
Chad | 3 |
China | 885 |
Congo | 45 |
Congo (Democratic Republic) | 103 |
Cuba | 1 |
Djibouti | 1 |
Dominica | 1 |
Egypt | 24 |
Eritrea | 266 |
Ethiopia | 110 |
Gambia, The | 57 |
Georgia | 6 |
Ghana | 12 |
Guinea | 44 |
Guinea-Bissau | 4 |
Haiti | 1 |
India | 31 |
Iran | 869 |
Iraq | 375 |
Ivory Coast | 45 |
Jamaica | 17 |
Kenya | 37 |
Kosovo | 2 |
Kuwait | 20 |
Latvia | 1 |
Lebanon | 5 |
Lesotho | 2 |
Liberia | 25 |
Libya | 59 |
Macedonia | 3 |
Malawi | 17 |
Malaysia | 2 |
Mali | 3 |
Mauritania | 3 |
Mauritius | 10 |
Mexico | 3 |
Moldova | 2 |
Mongolia | 2 |
Morocco | 13 |
Namibia | 5 |
Nigeria | 144 |
Korea (North) | 4 |
Pakistan | 231 |
Occupied Palestinian Territories | 68 |
Philippines | 3 |
Russia | 7 |
Rwanda | 12 |
Saudi Arabia | 3 |
Senegal | 15 |
Serbia | 1 |
Sierra Leone | 52 |
Singapore | 1 |
Somalia | 129 |
South Africa | 40 |
Sri Lanka | 108 |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 |
Stateless | 2 |
Sudan | 84 |
Swaziland | 2 |
Syria | 23 |
Tanzania | 4 |
Thailand | 1 |
Togo | 5 |
Trinidad And Tobago | 2 |
Tunisia | 5 |
Turkey | 12 |
Uganda | 52 |
Ukraine | 7 |
Venezuela | 1 |
Vietnam | 27 |
Western Sahara | 3 |
Yemen | 13 |
Former Yugoslavia | 1 |
Zambia | 3 |
Zimbabwe | 425 |
Other and unknown | 31 |
Total | 4,994 |