Written question asked by Austin Mitchell (Labour) on Thursday, 26 April 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 11 May 2001. It was answered by Barbara Roche (Labour) on Friday, 11 May 2001 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers entered at each port of entry in the latest available year. - Includes table.

Answer: Mr. Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers entered at each port of entry in the latest available year. [159753] Mrs. Roche: The following table details the breakdown of applications for asylum by port of entry. All data were taken from manual counts of asylum applications taken at port, which do not reconcile with the provisional monthly asylum statistics published on http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html Total asylum claims at ports of entry, 2000-01{ 1} _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number Heathrow 7,765 Dover East 4,835 Waterloo 4,810 Gatwick 2,870 Cheriton 1,300 Stansted 865 Harwich 240 Manchester 210 Hull 160 London City 155 Ashford 145 Portsmouth 130 Felixstowe 110 Tees Ports 95 Birmingham 70 Luton 65 Newcastle/North Shields 25 Dover Hoverport 15 Edinburgh 15 Poole 10 Aberdeen 10 Belfast 5 Bristol 5 Plymouth 5 Liverpool 5 Southampton 5 Swansea 5 Folkestone 5 Leeds Bradford * Norwich * Newhaven * East Midlands * Cardiff * _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Data rounded to multiple of five, (*) = 1 or 2

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