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Written question asked by David TC Davies (Conservative) on Friday, 4 September 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 8 September 2015. It was answered by James Brokenshire (Conservative) on Thursday, 10 September 2015 on behalf of the Home Office.


Asylum

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants had been granted asylum in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Answer

There were 5,135, 5,736 and 7,266 grants of asylum based on initial decision by main applicants in 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively.

These figures are published in the Immigration Statistics release table as_01 “Asylum applications and initial decisions for main applicants, by country of nationality”.

The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on asylum applications and initial decisions within the Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
8911
Session
2015-16
Subjects
Asylum
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk