Parliamentary Search

Written question asked by Hugh Bayley (Labour) on Monday, 3 September 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 10 September 2007. It was answered by Liam Byrne (Labour) on Monday, 10 September 2007 on behalf of the Home Office.

Asylum: Iraq

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to her answer on 14 March 2007, Official Report, column 393W, on Asylum: Iraq, how many applications for asylum were made by Iraqi nationals in each year since 2000; and how many Iraqi nationals were (a) granted asylum, (b) granted leave to remain in the UK on other grounds and (c) deported in each year.
Answer

Information on asylum applications, initial decisions and removals for nationals of Iraq is shown in the table. Initial decisions do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period. Removal figures do not necessarily relate to decisions made in the same period.Information on asylum applications, initial decisions and removals for nationals of Iraq are published quarterly and annually. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html"

Asylum applications¹ received in the United Kingdom, excluding dependants, initial decisions² and asylum removals, 2000-06, nationals of Iraq
Principal applicants
Applications Decisions Removals³,4,5
Total Total decisions Grants of asylum Grants of ELR Grants of Hp6 Grants of DL6 Total refusals Grants of ELR under backlog criteria7,8 Non compliance refusals under backlog criteria7,9 Total
2000¹0 7,475 5,530 845 2,455 n/a n/a 2,220 10 * ¹¹—
2001 6,680 9,035 830 1,885 n/a n/a 6,315 n/a n/a 90
2002 14,570 11,905 715 8,195 n/a n/a 2,995 n/a n/a 195
2003 4,015 6,805 70 2,105 * 45 4,580 n/a n/a 280
2004 1,695 4,815 10 n/a — 185 4,615 n/a n/a 770
2005 1,415 1,835 5 n/a 10 150 1,675 n/a n/a 1,040
2006 ¹² 945 740 30 n/a — 60 650 n/a n/a 1,780
n/a = not applicable.
¹ Figures rounded to the nearest 5 (— = 0, * = 1 or 2).
² Information is of initial decisions, excluding the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions. Decision figures do not necessarily relate to applications received in the same period. Removal figures do not necessarily relate to decisions made in the same period.
³ Figures include enforced removals, persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them and persons leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration.
4 Removals since 2005 include persons who it is established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities.
5 Figures for 2001-03 have been estimated due to data quality issues.
6 Humanitarian Protection and Discretionary Leave replaced Exceptional Leave to Remain from 1 April 2003.
7 Cases decided under pragmatic measures aimed at reducing the pre 1996 asylum backlog.
8 May include a small number of cases where asylum has been granted.
9 May include a small number of cases where the application has been refused on substantive grounds.
¹0 May exclude some cases lodged at Local Enforcement Offices between January and March 2000.
¹¹ not available
¹² Provisional figures.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
155098; 463 c1930-2W
Session
2006-07
Related items
Asylum: Iraq
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Asylum Iraq
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk