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Written question asked by James Clappison (Conservative) on Tuesday, 31 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 2 February 2006. It was answered by Tony McNulty (Labour) on Wednesday, 8 February 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.

Asylum/Immigration

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the latest Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, what the main reasons were for refusal of the 7,405 refused applicants under the Government's family indefinite leave to remain exercise of 24 October 2003; and how many of these applicants subsequently (a) had an asylum application granted, (b) had an asylum application refused, (c) were otherwise granted leave to remain and (d) were removed from the UK.
Answer

Over the last six months, the reasons for refusal under the exercise are given in the following table.This information is based on internal management information and as such is not published within the official statistics.Regarding subsequent decisions on applicants who have been refused under the exercise, the requested Information is not available. This could be obtained only at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case records.Information on asylum applications and initial decisions are published quarterly and annually. Copies are available from the Library of the House and on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at: http://homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

Percentage
No qualifying dependants (either born outside qualification dates or none on claim) 27
Already granted indefinite leave to remain (outside the scope of the exercise) 24
Unspent criminal conviction 15
Asylum application made after 14
Other 20

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
48467; 442 c1262-3W;442 c1262-3W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Asylum Applications Deportation Families Immigration
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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