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Written question asked by Humfrey Malins (Conservative) on Tuesday, 15 October 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 22 October 2002. It was answered by Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 October 2002 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how may applications for asylum from Iraq were received in the first two quarters of 2002; how many were rejected; how many are subject to appeal; and how many removals have taken place. - Includes table.
Answer

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how may applications for asylum from Iraq were received in the first two quarters of 2002; how many were rejected; how many are subject to appeal; and how many removals have taken place. [75412] Beverley Hughes: The table shows the number of applications received in the United Kingdom, excluding dependants, and initial decisions1,2,p of Iraqi nationals for the first two quarters of 2002. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Applications Total Initial Recognised as a Not recognised as a Refusals Received Decisions refugee and granted refugee but granted asylum exceptional leave Quarter 1 2002 2,840 2,535 220 1,430 890 Quarter 2 2002 3,420 2,545 195 1,775 575 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1 Figures rounded to the nearest five. 2 Decision figures do not necessarily relate to applications received in the same period. p Provisional figures Data on initial decisions are independent of applications data, and do not all necessarily relate to applications lodged in the same period. There are no data available on asylum appeals lodged by nationality. The requested information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case records. In the first quarter (January to March) of 2002, an estimated 35 Iraqi principal asylum applicants were removed. This includes 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 (IOM), and excludes dependants. Data on removals by nationality in the second quarter of 2002 are not yet available. This information will be published on 29 November on the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/ immigration 1.html.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
391 c232W; 75412
Session
2001-02
Subjects
Appeals Asylum Applications Iraq
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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