Asked by: Viscount Waverley (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what revenue they received, per country, for the Overseas Market Introduction Service in each of the past four years.
Answered by Lord Price
The table below sets out for each of the last four years, revenue generated based on the value of key activities delivered in all markets via UK Trade & Investment’s Overseas Market Introduction Service.
Delivery Market | Total Revenue 2012-13 | Total Revenue 2013-14 | Total Revenue 2014-15 | Total Revenue 2015-16 |
Algeria | £23,100.00 | £17,936.00 | £1,470.00 | £5,250.00 |
Angola | £25,440.00 | £58,856.00 | £15,270.00 | £22,290.00 |
Argentina | £51,520.00 | £39,719.00 | £12,732.00 | £8,148.00 |
Australia | £165,561.23 | £189,077.00 | £41,820.00 | £40,995.00 |
Austria | £90,195.00 | £165,394.00 | £49,599.00 | £49,728.00 |
Azerbaijan | £16,775.00 | £17,298.00 | £10,664.00 | £7,140.00 |
Bahrain | £21,410.00 | £36,866.00 | £35,646.00 | £26,460.00 |
Bangladesh | £33,720.00 | £39,230.00 | £9,804.00 | £20,790.00 |
Barbados | £7,740.00 | £2,240.00 | £2,916.00 | £4,410.00 |
Belgium | £61,445.00 | £57,808.50 | £24,752.72 | £39,270.00 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | £8,655.00 | £6,732.00 | £8,700.00 | £2,940.00 |
Brazil | £428,418.05 | £482,047.00 | £110,976.00 | £82,018.20 |
Bulgaria | £22,025.00 | £31,707.00 | £9,791.58 | £9,030.00 |
Burma | £12,285.00 | £10,572.00 | £12,108.00 | £1,470.00 |
Cambodia | £0.00 | £14,744.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Cameroon | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £2,100.00 |
Canada | £81,641.63 | £126,106.00 | £81,874.00 | £64,848.00 |
Chile | £53,985.00 | £65,915.00 | £29,064.00 | £10,920.00 |
China | £698,212.83 | £668,480.00 | £464,761.92 | £114,905.84 |
Colombia | £49,335.00 | £54,933.00 | £19,704.00 | £2,090.00 |
Costa Rica | £14,515.00 | £14,658.00 | £3,780.00 | £5,460.00 |
Croatia | £17,251.80 | £19,992.00 | £5,628.00 | £9,030.00 |
Cuba | £16,925.00 | £11,026.00 | £5,040.00 | £17,640.00 |
Cyprus | £7,630.00 | £3,468.00 | £6,072.00 | £1,890.00 |
Czech Republic | £59,718.33 | £27,644.00 | £9,132.00 | £6,342.00 |
Denmark | £108,135.00 | £98,416.00 | £65,513.40 | £51,446.28 |
Dominican Republic | £16,905.00 | £14,892.00 | £11,922.00 | £16,590.00 |
Ecuador | £11,121.68 | £12,767.00 | £10,020.00 | £4,620.00 |
Egypt | £61,375.00 | £58,749.00 | £24,408.00 | £29,190.00 |
Estonia | £16,995.00 | £26,489.00 | £15,516.00 | £17,304.00 |
Ethiopia | £15,680.00 | £14,432.00 | £23,634.00 | £9,450.00 |
Finland | £35,795.00 | £48,512.00 | £41,460.00 | £26,040.00 |
France | £206,644.94 | £221,023.00 | £128,271.92 | £105,762.72 |
Germany | £249,214.96 | £255,350.00 | £149,347.50 | £72,166.08 |
Ghana | £59,175.00 | £81,456.00 | £24,900.00 | £24,780.00 |
Greece | £38,540.00 | £39,845.00 | £17,160.00 | £19,519.92 |
Guinea | £0.00 | £1,428.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Guyana | £200.00 | £5,712.00 | £948.00 | £0.00 |
Hong Kong (SAR) | £145,191.08 | £124,931.00 | £30,481.00 | £47,412.00 |
Hungary | £35,950.00 | £48,087.00 | £9,558.00 | £3,360.00 |
Iceland | £15,115.00 | £5,460.00 | £0.00 | £630.00 |
India | £435,225.81 | £433,528.37 | £48,331.95 | £15,749.58 |
Indonesia | £76,890.00 | £86,181.00 | £62,292.00 | £13,818.00 |
Iraq | £47,605.00 | £26,078.00 | £3,894.00 | £0.00 |
Ireland | £49,310.00 | £49,485.00 | £11,682.00 | £15,540.00 |
Israel | £28,660.00 | £32,637.00 | £14,000.00 | £8,400.00 |
Italy | £142,610.00 | £131,258.00 | £61,138.00 | £79,193.10 |
Jamaica | £2,265.00 | £5,481.00 | £1,452.00 | £1,680.00 |
Japan | £391,130.02 | £310,469.00 | £67,835.00 | £156,564.00 |
Jordan | £59,360.00 | £49,785.00 | £12,036.00 | £5,880.00 |
Kazakhstan | £33,513.33 | £34,064.00 | £12,540.00 | £18,270.00 |
Kenya | £50,187.52 | £46,045.00 | £15,804.00 | £20,160.00 |
Korea (South) | £158,095.00 | £147,025.00 | £70,898.00 | £86,692.20 |
Kuwait | £54,538.33 | £24,494.00 | £36,618.00 | £43,554.00 |
Latvia | £15,480.00 | £26,276.00 | £15,516.00 | £13,230.00 |
Lebanon | £24,070.00 | £19,383.00 | £420.00 | £7,308.00 |
Libya | £29,100.00 | £14,766.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Lithuania | £23,260.00 | £30,335.00 | £23,958.00 | £9,660.00 |
Luxembourg | £1,150.00 | £3,618.00 | £3,360.00 | £5,880.00 |
Malaysia | £129,835.00 | £118,779.00 | £56,058.00 | £28,602.00 |
Mexico | £229,660.00 | £245,240.00 | £159,522.00 | £99,319.50 |
Mongolia | £0.00 | £16,544.04 | £10,080.00 | £10,871.70 |
Morocco | £30,210.00 | £21,420.00 | £19,950.00 | £8,400.00 |
Mozambique | £3,120.00 | £13,172.00 | £5,568.00 | £6,930.00 |
Netherlands | £63,722.52 | £60,640.00 | £11,295.00 | £15,330.00 |
New Zealand | £35,077.20 | £40,299.00 | £12,624.00 | £8,526.00 |
Nigeria | £78,585.00 | £100,839.34 | £34,812.00 | £51,876.00 |
Norway | £66,065.00 | £70,176.00 | £51,932.00 | £24,990.00 |
Oman | £58,095.00 | £50,244.00 | £18,840.00 | £25,916.10 |
Pakistan | £52,400.00 | £54,555.00 | £23,292.00 | £28,770.00 |
Panama | £35,565.00 | £25,080.00 | £12,278.00 | £12,760.02 |
Papua New Guinea | £0.00 | £1,950.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Peru | £28,745.00 | £30,528.00 | £4,560.00 | £4,950.00 |
Philippines | £59,265.00 | £62,027.00 | £19,716.00 | £8,022.00 |
Poland | £114,100.00 | £100,380.00 | £15,612.00 | £15,750.00 |
Portugal | £84,375.00 | £88,698.00 | £70,494.00 | £60,060.00 |
Qatar | £81,105.00 | £105,486.00 | £36,714.00 | £40,260.00 |
Romania | £79,385.00 | £72,032.00 | £71,860.98 | £3,822.00 |
Russia | £338,630.01 | £401,078.00 | £108,740.28 | £114,212.28 |
Saudi Arabia | £186,370.00 | £172,625.00 | £83,622.00 | £68,526.00 |
Serbia | £18,160.00 | £15,042.00 | £5,607.00 | £4,200.00 |
Singapore | £154,790.00 | £154,944.00 | £82,102.34 | £47,153.82 |
Slovakia | £8,745.00 | £3,672.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Slovenia | £14,985.00 | £2,376.00 | £1,260.00 | £0.00 |
South Africa | £153,035.00 | £135,935.00 | £91,974.00 | £47,754.00 |
Spain | £153,630.00 | £154,478.00 | £63,714.00 | £75,175.02 |
Sri Lanka | £13,725.00 | £18,456.00 | £4,190.00 | £3,570.00 |
Sudan | £5,370.00 | £390.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Sweden | £107,455.00 | £123,362.00 | £57,355.92 | £55,851.60 |
Switzerland | £75,047.52 | £88,306.00 | £67,188.00 | £73,920.00 |
Taiwan | £93,625.00 | £113,218.00 | £41,910.00 | £30,624.00 |
Tanzania | £28,422.52 | £34,041.00 | £19,020.00 | £13,965.00 |
Thailand | £95,638.33 | £104,259.00 | £64,812.00 | £15,072.00 |
Trinidad and Tobago | £32,165.00 | £51,646.00 | £4,748.00 | £5,826.00 |
Tunisia | £19,705.00 | £17,364.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Turkey | £183,445.00 | £137,643.00 | £65,820.00 | £39,918.00 |
Turkmenistan | £0.00 | £1,220.00 | £1,260.00 | £1,470.00 |
Uganda | £23,130.00 | £18,741.00 | £2,448.00 | £7,245.00 |
Ukraine | £28,577.52 | £20,400.00 | £22,890.00 | £23,898.00 |
UKREP | £26,575.00 | £27,630.00 | £18,834.00 | £21,210.00 |
United Arab Emirates | £208,503.33 | £241,732.01 | £129,981.60 | £136,197.60 |
United States | £605,718.52 | £652,752.00 | £279,708.00 | £347,662.68 |
Venezuela | £25,830.00 | £28,356.00 | £3,672.00 | £0.00 |
Vietnam | £97,855.00 | £102,435.00 | £55,632.00 | £29,190.00 |
Zambia | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £420.00 |
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications for visitor visas from each country were accepted in the most recent year for which records are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is given in the table below:
Entry clearance visa cases resolved in 2015 by nationality:visitor visas (including dependants). | ||||
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| All nationalities | 2,225,339 | 1,914,072 | 86% |
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| China | 421,302 | 397,764 | 94% |
| India | 411,576 | 367,243 | 89% |
| Nigeria | 131,540 | 88,367 | 67% |
| Russia | 114,383 | 109,717 | 96% |
| Saudi Arabia | 104,555 | 103,534 | 99% |
| Turkey | 96,824 | 89,665 | 93% |
| South Africa | 92,274 | 90,788 | 98% |
| Pakistan | 90,414 | 44,989 | 50% |
| Kuwait | 87,484 | 86,991 | 99% |
| Thailand | 61,790 | 58,000 | 94% |
| Egypt | 40,830 | 32,869 | 81% |
| Philippines | 40,315 | 35,867 | 89% |
| Ukraine | 34,659 | 27,671 | 80% |
| Indonesia | 33,253 | 31,911 | 96% |
| Ghana | 26,533 | 15,251 | 57% |
| Sri Lanka | 24,199 | 17,722 | 73% |
| Colombia | 23,413 | 22,636 | 97% |
| Bangladesh | 21,713 | 9,389 | 43% |
| Algeria | 21,290 | 14,851 | 70% |
| Lebanon | 17,750 | 14,930 | 84% |
| Kenya | 14,997 | 12,822 | 85% |
| Morocco | 14,827 | 13,115 | 88% |
| Jordan | 14,371 | 11,897 | 83% |
| Iran | 14,255 | 8,152 | 57% |
| Vietnam | 13,674 | 11,822 | 86% |
| Kazakhstan | 12,988 | 12,429 | 96% |
| Serbia | 11,896 | 10,858 | 91% |
| Bahrain | 10,955 | 10,778 | 98% |
| Zimbabwe | 9,884 | 6,287 | 64% |
| Venezuela | 9,873 | 8,823 | 89% |
| Iraq | 9,419 | 2,717 | 29% |
| Belarus | 9,101 | 8,577 | 94% |
| Qatar | 8,288 | 8,238 | 99% |
| Azerbaijan | 7,377 | 6,813 | 92% |
| Nepal | 7,292 | 5,235 | 72% |
| United Arab Emirates | 7,263 | 7,240 | 100% |
| Jamaica | 7,101 | 4,995 | 70% |
| Albania | 6,732 | 4,681 | 70% |
| Peru | 6,696 | 6,372 | 95% |
| Sudan | 6,183 | 2,414 | 39% |
| Uganda | 5,968 | 4,041 | 68% |
| Tunisia | 5,738 | 4,871 | 85% |
| Georgia | 5,362 | 4,169 | 78% |
| Refugee | 5,290 | 3,702 | 70% |
| Syria | 4,941 | 1,266 | 26% |
| Tanzania | 4,796 | 4,141 | 86% |
| Kosovo | 4,416 | 3,116 | 71% |
| Cameroon | 4,094 | 2,771 | 68% |
| Occupied Palestinian Territories | 3,835 | 2,224 | 58% |
| Angola | 3,665 | 2,697 | 74% |
| Zambia | 3,586 | 3,010 | 84% |
| Ecuador | 3,423 | 3,207 | 94% |
| Ethiopia | 3,142 | 2,238 | 71% |
| Macedonia | 3,134 | 2,739 | 87% |
| Congo (Democratic Republic) | 2,961 | 1,457 | 49% |
| Uzbekistan | 2,778 | 2,076 | 75% |
| Yemen | 2,711 | 689 | 25% |
| Libya | 2,627 | 1,121 | 43% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2,550 | 2,156 | 85% |
| Gambia, The | 2,544 | 1,063 | 42% |
| Burma | 2,505 | 1,926 | 77% |
| Sierra Leone | 2,452 | 1,545 | 63% |
| Afghanistan | 2,393 | 981 | 41% |
| Armenia | 2,356 | 2,237 | 95% |
* | United States | 2,065 | 1,500 | 73% |
| Ivory Coast | 1,998 | 1,346 | 67% |
| Other and unknown | 1,986 | 1,387 | 70% |
| Cuba | 1,847 | 1,558 | 84% |
| Senegal | 1,665 | 1,016 | 61% |
| Mongolia | 1,664 | 1,407 | 85% |
| Dominican Republic | 1,655 | 1,524 | 92% |
| Malawi | 1,618 | 1,316 | 81% |
| Oman | 1,256 | 1,235 | 98% |
| Moldova | 1,246 | 920 | 74% |
| Cambodia | 1,042 | 832 | 80% |
| Montenegro | 1,027 | 944 | 92% |
| Fiji | 1,004 | 878 | 87% |
| Bolivia | 984 | 901 | 92% |
| Mozambique | 975 | 852 | 87% |
| Guyana | 909 | 734 | 81% |
* | Hong Kong | 881 | 771 | 88% |
| Kyrgyzstan | 877 | 724 | 83% |
| Turkmenistan | 823 | 692 | 84% |
| Rwanda | 813 | 668 | 82% |
* | Australia | 740 | 627 | 85% |
| Guinea | 649 | 372 | 57% |
| Congo | 624 | 392 | 63% |
| Eritrea | 583 | 221 | 38% |
* | Brazil | 565 | 422 | 75% |
| Laos | 490 | 407 | 83% |
* | Canada | 444 | 353 | 80% |
| Benin | 407 | 275 | 68% |
| Madagascar | 393 | 344 | 88% |
| Mali | 388 | 260 | 67% |
| Togo | 341 | 217 | 64% |
| Somalia | 338 | 129 | 38% |
| Liberia | 330 | 218 | 66% |
| Swaziland | 318 | 294 | 92% |
* | Japan | 306 | 274 | 90% |
| Tajikistan | 306 | 238 | 78% |
| Gabon | 302 | 249 | 82% |
| Burkina | 295 | 233 | 79% |
| Haiti | 265 | 230 | 87% |
* | Malaysia | 264 | 208 | 79% |
| Comoros | 262 | 199 | 76% |
| Sudan (South) | 248 | 166 | 67% |
* | Korea (South) | 237 | 217 | 92% |
| Lesotho | 232 | 212 | 91% |
| Cyprus | 225 | 136 | 60% |
| Taiwan | 217 | 203 | 94% |
| Stateless | 214 | 151 | 71% |
* | New Zealand | 208 | 163 | 78% |
| Djibouti | 182 | 106 | 58% |
| Burundi | 181 | 123 | 68% |
| Mauritania | 172 | 147 | 85% |
* | Mexico | 143 | 109 | 76% |
| Bhutan | 126 | 113 | 90% |
| Chad | 124 | 91 | 73% |
| Niger | 124 | 85 | 69% |
| Surinam | 120 | 108 | 90% |
| Guinea-Bissau | 115 | 58 | 50% |
| Cape Verde | 107 | 67 | 63% |
* | Israel | 105 | 72 | 69% |
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The proportion granted varies by nationality reflecting a number of factors, including the evidence submitted in individual applications, whether applicants are eligible, and UKVI’s assessment of whether an applicant is a genuine visitor. Detailed information on how UK Visas and Immigration makes decisions on visitor cases is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in ‘Immigration Statistics’, available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics
Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many asylum applications have been made in each of the last five years by applicants who entered the UK on a student visa; what were the nationalities of each applicant; how many of those applications were refused, and how many unsuccessful applicants were subsequently removed.
Answered by Lord Bates
Over the last five years there have been 15,470 cases of individuals who have entered on a student visa and subsequently also went on to claim asylum. Details by year and nationality are below.
Unfortunately the way corresponding data is held on asylum outcome means that to obtain the numbers of cases that were granted, refused and removed could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.
Visa Nationality | Asylum Year | Grand Total | ||||
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||
Afghanistan | 10 | 26 | 63 | 73 | 69 | 241 |
Albania | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 | |
Algeria | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 17 | |
Angola | 2 | 2 | ||||
Armenia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
Azerbaijan | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
Bahrain | 6 | 5 | 1 | 12 | ||
Bangladesh | 12 | 31 | 167 | 318 | 264 | 792 |
Belarus | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
Benin | 1 | 1 | ||||
Bolivia | 1 | 1 | ||||
Botswana | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | ||||
Burkina Faso | 1 | 1 | ||||
Burma (Myanmar) | 166 | 98 | 42 | 14 | 13 | 333 |
Burundi | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
Cameroon | 4 | 3 | 9 | 33 | 52 | 101 |
Central African Republic | 1 | 1 | ||||
China | 16 | 25 | 95 | 162 | 160 | 458 |
Colombia | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
Congo | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||
Democratic Republic of Congo | 5 | 7 | 5 | 17 | ||
Egypt | 1 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 51 |
Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1 | ||||
Eritrea | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 |
Ethiopia | 9 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 39 |
Gambia | 11 | 9 | 38 | 39 | 32 | 129 |
Georgia | 2 | 5 | 7 | |||
Ghana | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | ||
Guinea | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
HONG KONG | 1 | 1 | ||||
India | 10 | 26 | 244 | 320 | 294 | 894 |
Iran | 106 | 244 | 464 | 307 | 148 | 1269 |
Iraq | 6 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 54 | 95 |
Israel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
Ivory Coast | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
Jamaica | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||
Japan | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
Jordan | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
Kenya | 6 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 45 |
Kuwait | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
Kyrgyzstan | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | |
Lebanon | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 | |
Liberia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
Libya | 7 | 114 | 73 | 57 | 86 | 337 |
Malawi | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 40 |
Malaysia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||
Maldives | 1 | 1 | ||||
Mali | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Mauritius | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | |
MEXICO | 2 | 2 | ||||
Mongolia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
Morocco | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 18 | |
Nepal | 4 | 3 | 33 | 37 | 25 | 102 |
Nigeria | 6 | 12 | 94 | 142 | 136 | 390 |
Oman | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
Pakistan | 52 | 385 | 1313 | 1471 | 1265 | 4486 |
Palestinian Authority | 18 | 24 | 30 | 25 | 30 | 127 |
Philippines | 1 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 32 | |
Russian Federation | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |
Rwanda | 9 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 29 |
Saudi Arabia | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | ||
Senegal | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 18 | |
Sierra Leone | 1 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 16 | |
SINGAPORE | 1 | 1 | ||||
Somalia | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
SOUTH KOREA | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
SOUTH SUDAN | 1 | 1 | ||||
Sri Lanka | 230 | 744 | 1137 | 1171 | 715 | 3997 |
St Lucia | 1 | 1 | ||||
St Vincent & the Grenadines | 1 | 1 | ||||
Sudan | 6 | 11 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 60 |
Syria | 8 | 24 | 256 | 251 | 134 | 673 |
Tanzania | 10 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 61 |
Thailand | 1 | 1 | ||||
Tunisia | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
Turkey | 6 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 32 |
Turkmenistan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
Uganda | 7 | 11 | 42 | 33 | 41 | 134 |
Ukraine | 9 | 9 | ||||
Uzbekistan | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
Venezuela | 3 | 3 | ||||
Vietnam | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 33 |
Yemen | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | |
Yugoslavia | 1 | 1 | ||||
Zambia | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | |
Zimbabwe | 14 | 11 | 26 | 15 | 15 | 81 |
Grand Total | 781 | 1901 | 4350 | 4695 | 3743 | 15470 |
Note: The figures quoted have been derived from internal management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.
Asked by: Lord Teverson (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government in which countries credibility interviews of potential international students were undertaken by UK Visas and Immigration in (1) 2013, (2) 2014, and (3) 2015.
Answered by Lord Bates
UK Visas and Immigration interviewed applicants resident in the following countries for Tier 4 Student visa applications:
2015: Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tunisia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
2014: Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tunisia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
2013: Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Bahrain, China and Bangladesh.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people granted temporary asylum as children have been denied permanent asylum upon applying as an adult by country of origin in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not return Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) whose claims have been refused, unless adequate reception arrangements are in place in the country to which the child is to be returned. If adequate reception arrangements are absent, most unaccompanied children are granted temporary leave to remain (UASC Leave) which usually continues until their 18th birthday. When a child passes the age of 18 and their UASC Leave expires, they are no longer considered to be an unaccompanied asylum seeking child and are therefore required to take steps to return voluntarily or seek further leave to remain. If the individual does not seek to regularise their stay through further applications or leave is not granted they may be removed should they fail to leave voluntarily. The table below provides the number of people granted UASC Leave as children and who have been denied permanent asylum upon applying as an adult by country of origin in each of the last 10 years:
| Year of Further Leave Application | ||||||||||
| 2006 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|
Afghanistan | Less than 5 | 13 | 56 | 206 | 445 | 502 | 385 | 281 | 150 | 78 |
|
Albania | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 7 | 26 | 18 | 29 | 49 | 92 | 54 |
|
Algeria | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 14 | Less than 5 | 5 |
|
Angola | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 15 | 25 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 18 | 5 |
|
Brazil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Burundi | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Cameroon | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Chad | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
China | 0 | Less than 5 | 10 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Congo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Eritrea | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 10 | 12 | 8 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Ethiopia | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Gambia | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Georgia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Ghana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Guinea | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Guinea Bissau | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
India | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | Less than 5 | 9 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Less than 5 | 7 | 11 | 67 | 97 | 84 | 66 | 52 | 30 | 12 |
|
Iraq | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 8 | 75 | 133 | 91 | 34 | 12 | 5 | 5 |
|
Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Jordan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Kenya | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Kosovo | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Kuwait | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Kuwait Bidoun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Liberia | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Libya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Mauritius | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Moldova, Republic of | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Mongolia | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Morocco | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Less than 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 |
|
Nationality Currently Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Niger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Nigeria | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Pakistan | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 11 | 21 | 28 | 10 | 10 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Palestinian Authority | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 7 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Republic of Serbia | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Russian Federation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Sierra Leone | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Somalia | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 6 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
South Africa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Sri Lanka | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 11 | Less than 5 |
|
Stateless Person (Article 1 of 1954 Convention) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Sudan | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Syria Arab Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Togo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Turkey | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 6 | 5 | Less than 5 | 6 | 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Uganda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
United Rep of Tanzania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Unspecified Nationality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 8 |
|
Western Sahara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Yemen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Zimbabwe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Grand Total | 6 | 50 | 114 | 483 | 870 | 871 | 631 | 505 | 374 | 204 |
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The table below provides the number of people granted UASC Leave as children, having arrived in the UK under the age of 12, and who have been denied permanent asylum upon applying as an adult in each of the last 10 years:
| Year of Further Leave Application | ||||||||||
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|
Afghanistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Eritrea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Sri Lanka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Zimbabwe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Grand Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | Less than 5 |
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The Home Office statistics on asylum applications and initial decisions for UASC are published quarterly in ‘Immigration Statistics, April to June 2015: data tables’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2015-data-tables.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people granted temporary asylum as children, having arrived in the UK under the age of 12, have been denied permanent asylum upon applying as an adult in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not return Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) whose claims have been refused, unless adequate reception arrangements are in place in the country to which the child is to be returned. If adequate reception arrangements are absent, most unaccompanied children are granted temporary leave to remain (UASC Leave) which usually continues until their 18th birthday. When a child passes the age of 18 and their UASC Leave expires, they are no longer considered to be an unaccompanied asylum seeking child and are therefore required to take steps to return voluntarily or seek further leave to remain. If the individual does not seek to regularise their stay through further applications or leave is not granted they may be removed should they fail to leave voluntarily. The table below provides the number of people granted UASC Leave as children and who have been denied permanent asylum upon applying as an adult by country of origin in each of the last 10 years:
| Year of Further Leave Application | ||||||||||
| 2006 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|
Afghanistan | Less than 5 | 13 | 56 | 206 | 445 | 502 | 385 | 281 | 150 | 78 |
|
Albania | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 7 | 26 | 18 | 29 | 49 | 92 | 54 |
|
Algeria | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 14 | Less than 5 | 5 |
|
Angola | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 15 | 25 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 18 | 5 |
|
Brazil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Burundi | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Cameroon | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Chad | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
China | 0 | Less than 5 | 10 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Congo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Eritrea | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 10 | 12 | 8 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Ethiopia | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Gambia | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Georgia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Ghana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Guinea | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Guinea Bissau | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
India | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | Less than 5 | 9 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Less than 5 | 7 | 11 | 67 | 97 | 84 | 66 | 52 | 30 | 12 |
|
Iraq | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 8 | 75 | 133 | 91 | 34 | 12 | 5 | 5 |
|
Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Jordan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Kenya | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Kosovo | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Kuwait | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Kuwait Bidoun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Liberia | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Libya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Mauritius | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Moldova, Republic of | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Mongolia | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Morocco | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Less than 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 |
|
Nationality Currently Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Niger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Nigeria | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | 5 | Less than 5 | 7 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Pakistan | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 11 | 21 | 28 | 10 | 10 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Palestinian Authority | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 7 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Republic of Serbia | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Russian Federation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Sierra Leone | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Somalia | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 6 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
South Africa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Sri Lanka | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 11 | Less than 5 |
|
Stateless Person (Article 1 of 1954 Convention) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Sudan | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Syria Arab Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Togo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Turkey | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 6 | 5 | Less than 5 | 6 | 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Uganda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
United Rep of Tanzania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Unspecified Nationality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 8 |
|
Western Sahara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
|
Yemen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Zimbabwe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Grand Total | 6 | 50 | 114 | 483 | 870 | 871 | 631 | 505 | 374 | 204 |
|
The table below provides the number of people granted UASC Leave as children, having arrived in the UK under the age of 12, and who have been denied permanent asylum upon applying as an adult in each of the last 10 years:
| Year of Further Leave Application | ||||||||||
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|
Afghanistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 |
|
Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
|
Eritrea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Sri Lanka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Zimbabwe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 |
|
Grand Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 5 | Less than 5 |
|
The Home Office statistics on asylum applications and initial decisions for UASC are published quarterly in ‘Immigration Statistics, April to June 2015: data tables’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2015-data-tables.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which countries people have been forcibly removed in the last three years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The table below shows the number of enforced removals from the United Kingdom by destination country for the last three years.
| Table: Enforced removals by country of destination, 2012 to 2014 | |||
| Country of destination | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| Afghanistan | 518 | 496 | 398 |
| Albania | 473 | 613 | 823 |
| Algeria | 124 | 90 | 60 |
| American Samoa | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andorra | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Angola | 24 | 20 | 11 |
| Anguilla | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| Argentina | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| Armenia | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Aruba | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Australia | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| Austria | 56 | 68 | 31 |
| Azerbaijan | 7 | 0 | 2 |
| Bahamas, The | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Bahrain | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Bangladesh | 881 | 603 | 651 |
| Barbados | 14 | 12 | 8 |
| Belarus | 12 | 5 | 3 |
| Belgium | 100 | 110 | 69 |
| Belize | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Benin | 7 | 3 | 5 |
| Bermuda | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bhutan | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bolivia | 71 | 27 | 24 |
| Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Botswana | 19 | 2 | 7 |
| Brazil | 339 | 261 | 131 |
| British overseas citizens | z | z | z |
| Brunei | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bulgaria | 47 | 58 | 70 |
| Burkina | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Burma | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Burundi | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Cambodia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cameroon | 49 | 29 | 35 |
| Canada | 27 | 34 | 21 |
| Cape Verde | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cayman Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Chad | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chile | 32 | 20 | 13 |
| China | 617 | 512 | 423 |
| Christmas Island | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Colombia | 86 | 64 | 34 |
| Comoros | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Congo | 7 | 8 | 5 |
| Congo (Democratic Republic) | 14 | 6 | 4 |
| Cook Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Croatia | 7 | 8 | 13 |
| Cuba | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Curacao | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cyprus | 14 | 8 | 9 |
| Cyprus (Northern part of) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Czech Republic | 36 | 58 | 110 |
| Denmark | 16 | 13 | 12 |
| Djibouti | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dominica | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Dominican Republic | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| East Timor | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ecuador | 10 | 9 | 6 |
| Egypt | 53 | 51 | 44 |
| El Salvador | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Eritrea | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Estonia | 11 | 9 | 12 |
| Ethiopia | 11 | 6 | 3 |
| Falkland Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Faroe Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fiji | 9 | 3 | 2 |
| Finland | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| Former Yugoslavia | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| France | 286 | 327 | 397 |
| French Guiana | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| French Polynesia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gabon | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gambia, The | 72 | 57 | 21 |
| Georgia | 32 | 28 | 8 |
| Germany | 144 | 123 | 79 |
| Ghana | 229 | 186 | 158 |
| Gibraltar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Greece | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Greenland | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grenada | 10 | 3 | 3 |
| Guadeloupe | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guam | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guatemala | 9 | 4 | 1 |
| Guinea | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Guyana | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Haiti | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Heard Island and McDonald Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Honduras | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 13 | 10 | 11 |
| Hungary | 27 | 44 | 52 |
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| India | 2,087 | 1,357 | 1,135 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 12 | 13 |
| Iran | 27 | 18 | 9 |
| Iraq | 55 | 99 | 42 |
| Ireland | 214 | 178 | 106 |
| Israel | 12 | 6 | 5 |
| Italy | 297 | 366 | 377 |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | 9 | 12 |
| Jamaica | 306 | 287 | 284 |
| Japan | 4 | 12 | 3 |
| Jordan | 12 | 7 | 9 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Kenya | 50 | 42 | 51 |
| Kiribati | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Korea (North) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Korea (South) | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Kosovo | 24 | 30 | 28 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Laos | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Latvia | 105 | 94 | 189 |
| Lebanon | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Lesotho | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Liberia | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Libya | 8 | 24 | 18 |
| Liechtenstein | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 193 | 324 | 425 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Macau | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Macedonia | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Malawi | 61 | 51 | 22 |
| Malaysia | 147 | 127 | 82 |
| Maldives | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mali | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Malta | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| Marshall Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Martinique | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mauritius | 52 | 56 | 43 |
| Mayotte | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mexico | 52 | 19 | 14 |
| Micronesia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moldova | 24 | 12 | 5 |
| Monaco | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mongolia | 23 | 13 | 13 |
| Montenegro | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Montserrat | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Morocco | 31 | 32 | 42 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Namibia | 23 | 18 | 15 |
| Nauru | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nepal | 174 | 144 | 153 |
| Netherlands | 105 | 110 | 91 |
| Netherlands Antilles | z | z | z |
| New Caledonia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Zealand | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Niger | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Nigeria | 707 | 698 | 506 |
| Niue | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norfolk Island | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway | 40 | 25 | 23 |
| Occupied Palestinian Territories | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Oman | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Other and unknown | 273 | 275 | 352 |
| Pakistan | 1,845 | 1,870 | 1,768 |
| Palau | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Papua New Guinea | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Paraguay | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Peru | 4 | 8 | 5 |
| Philippines | 158 | 115 | 108 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Poland | 372 | 415 | 579 |
| Portugal | 72 | 81 | 100 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Qatar | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Refugee | z | z | z |
| Reunion | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Romania | 463 | 705 | 829 |
| Russia | 31 | 13 | 8 |
| Rwanda | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Samoa | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| San Marino | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3 | 7 | 11 |
| Senegal | 11 | 12 | 9 |
| Serbia | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Serbia and Montenegro | z | z | z |
| Seychelles | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Sierra Leone | 24 | 11 | 12 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Slovakia | 44 | 58 | 95 |
| Slovenia | 3 | 9 | 4 |
| Solomon Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Somalia | 7 | 8 | 35 |
| South Africa | 58 | 57 | 34 |
| South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Spain | 71 | 70 | 59 |
| Sri Lanka | 364 | 164 | 185 |
| St. Helena | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| St. Lucia | 12 | 12 | 11 |
| St. Maarten (Dutch Part) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Martin (French Part) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Pierre and Miquelon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 13 | 9 | 9 |
| Stateless | z | z | z |
| Sudan | 7 | 2 | 7 |
| Sudan (South) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Surinam | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Svalbard and Jan Mayen | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swaziland | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Sweden | 36 | 45 | 29 |
| Switzerland | 25 | 36 | 24 |
| Syria | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Taiwan | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tanzania | 32 | 24 | 16 |
| Thailand | 54 | 42 | 32 |
| Togo | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Tokelau | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tonga | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 25 | 34 | 23 |
| Tunisia | 21 | 11 | 31 |
| Turkey | 133 | 122 | 68 |
| Turkmenistan | 10 | 8 | 1 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tuvalu | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Uganda | 61 | 48 | 25 |
| Ukraine | 112 | 79 | 106 |
| United Arab Emirates | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| United States | 66 | 98 | 70 |
| Uruguay | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Uzbekistan | 37 | 24 | 17 |
| Vanuatu | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vatican City | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Venezuela | 6 | 10 | 9 |
| Vietnam | 589 | 468 | 296 |
| Virgin Islands (British) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virgin Islands (US) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wallis and Futuna | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Western Sahara | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yemen | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Zambia | 19 | 8 | 10 |
| Zimbabwe | 42 | 32 | 34 |
| Total | 14,647 | 13,311 | 12,627 |
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of enforced removals from the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within the Immigration Statistics release. Data relating to enforced removals by destination are available in tables rv_05 to rv_06_q in Immigration Statistics: April – June 2015 on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
Asked by: Lord Roberts of Llandudno (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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.
Answered by Lord Bates
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 |
Asked by: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many delegates from fragile and conflict-affected states attended the NATO Summit in Wales in September; and of those how many were women.
Answered by Baroness Anelay of St Johns
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is primarily focused on issues of Transatlantic security. However, the UK was keen to encourage broader participation at the Summit.
Allied Heads of State and Government met with 27 partner countries including International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) contributors (Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, El Salvador, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Jordan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Sweden, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tonga, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates), countries from the region (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan) as well as Japan. High level representatives of the United Nations and the European Union also attended.
NATO agreed that its partner countries which cooperate with NATO on interoperability should also be invited. As well as countries included above, the Republic of Moldova, Morocco, Serbia, and Switzerland also attended the Summit.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the transparency and accountability of the Moscow Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) was held in Moscow over 13-18 October 2014. The United Kingdom was represented at the Conference, as were the following Parties to the treaty:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lesotho, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen and Zambia.
An official report of the proceedings of the Conference will be published in November 2014.
In addition, the next Conference to be held in 2016 will consider options that would further maximise transparency, particularly with regard to Party delegations to Conference of the Parties and subsidiary bodies.