Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many grants of discretionary leave to remain were made in 2016 in respect of asylum seekers whose claims had been refused; and how the reasons for those grants were classified.

The Home Office publishes the number of asylum applications and initial decisions broken down by nationality, each quarter in table as_01 of the Immigration Statistics release. The latest figures are attached to this answer. They are also available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/asylum

Each asylum case is considered on its individual merits in accordance with our international obligations and protection is granted where it is needed. Information regarding the reasons that an individual is granted status is not readily accessible from central statistical records and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost through a manual search of individual case files.