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Written question asked by Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative) on Wednesday, 17 March 2021, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 24 March 2021 (named day). It was answered by Kevin Foster (Conservative) on Wednesday, 24 March 2021 on behalf of the Home Office.

Belarus: Asylum

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total number of political asylums granted by UK to citizens of Belarus was in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020.

Answer

The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of the initial decision on asylum applications are published in tables Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets.

Please note, the data relates to all initial decisions on asylum applications, regardless of reason. The definition of asylum, as used by Immigration Statistics Quarterly release, can be found in the asylum section of the user guide.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to December 2020.

Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
172029
Session
2019-21
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Asylum British nationality Belarus
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk