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Home Office

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Mr. Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate (a) the total number of immigrants to the United Kingdom in each year since 1990 and (b) how many of those were (i) people granted asylum and (ii) other categories of immigrant. [149186] Mrs. Roche: The information requested is given in the table. Acceptances for permanent residence in the United Kingdom, 1990-99 Number of persons _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 All 53,200 53,900 52,570 55,640 55,010 55,480 61,730 58,720 69,790 97,120 acceptances{ 1} Refugees and 1,130 990 1,780 3,990 3,290 1,600 4,200 4,830 6,680 22,500 persons given exceptional leave to remain{2} of which: Recognised 930 750 1,280 2,850 2,260 680 1,120 2,400 4,270 | 22,500 refugees{2,3 } Persons 200 240 500 1,140 1,030 920 3,080 2,430 2,410 | given exceptional leave to remain{2} All other 52,070 52,910 50,790 51,650 51,720 53,880 57,530 53,890 63,110 74,620 acceptances{ 1} _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Includes spouses and dependants {2} Accepted in own right (excludes spouses and dependants) {3} Includes refugees from South East Asia and their dependants and persons granted settlement under measures aimed at reducing the pre-July 1993 backlog as announced in the White Paper in July 1998 Source: Table 6.3 of the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 1999 Information for 2000 should be published in June 2001

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

149186; 362 c746W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Asylum Immigration Migrants Refugees

Contains statistics

Yes

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