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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum applications have been made by persons aged under 18 years old in each of the last four years; how many have been (a) granted and (b) refused; and how many such persons have been granted leave to...

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

14 November 2007

For answer on

19 November 2007

Answered on

17 December 2007

The following table shows asylum applications received in the United Kingdom by persons aged under 18 years old at time of application in each of the last four years.Information on the number of initial decisions made on these applications would be available only by examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.Information on asylum applications by age of applicant is published annually. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html"

Applications¹, ² received for asylum in the United Kingdom, excluding dependants, by persons aged under 18 at time of application.
	Number
2003	7,865
2004	6,205
2005	5,165
2006³	4,580
¹ Figures rounded to the nearest 5. ² This figure may overstate because some applicants aged 18 or over may claim to be younger on leaving their country of origin. ³ Provisional figures.

Date

17 December 2007

Reference

469 c946-7W; 166168

House

House of Commons

Asylum: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department's policy is on whether local authorities may pay fees for asylum seekers to attend university on the basis that such persons are UK residents or foreign students; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 November 2007

Reference

166176; 468 c404W

House

House of Commons

Asylum: Surrey

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children seeking asylum are resident in Surrey.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 November 2007

Reference

166177; 467 c945-6W

House

House of Commons

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many accommodation centres have been set up under section 16 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 June 2007

Reference

143605; 462 c288W

House

House of Commons

Nepal

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment the Government have made of the safety of removing failed Nepali asylum seekers to Nepal; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 February 2006

Reference

443 c93W;443 c93W; 51617

House

House of Commons

Asylum/Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what process the National Asylum Support Service awards contracts for housing asylum seekers; what safeguards are in place to ensure that best value is obtained; what terms and conditions are imposed on agencies which contract with providers of accommodation...

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 December 2005

Reference

440 c1524-5W;440 c1524-5W; 34125

House

House of Commons

Asylum Seekers

Does the Minister accept that the offence of illegal employment is widespread and has increased dramatically over the past eight years under the Labour Government? They have sat back and watched the problem of illegal employment growing and chosen not to enforce the existing law, with only a handful of convictions in the past eight years. In view of the Government's poor track record in that respect, how can we have any confidence in either the Minister's desire or his ability to enforce the new criminal penalty set out in clause 17 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill?

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

10 October 2005

Reference

437 c16

House

House of Commons

Asylum Seekers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) asylum seekers and (b) immigration detainees in respect of whom all coroners' inquests and legal proceedings are completed have (i) died and (ii) being recorded as harming themselves in the last five years for which figures are...

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 July 2005

Reference

12295; 436 c1473W;436 c1473W

House

House of Commons

Asylum Seekers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of failed asylum seekers in the UK.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 June 2005

For answer on

8 June 2005

Answered on

5 July 2005

Information on the total number of asylum seekers currently in the UK, including failed asylum seekers, is not available. This could be obtained only at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case records. In addition some applicants may leave the United Kingdom without informing the Immigration Service. E-borders and ID cards will enable us to monitor this more precisely in the future. The Home Office published on 30 June, the outcome of the assessment of the applicability to the UK of the methods used by researchers and Government agencies in other countries to estimate the size of the illegal population. The methods had been identified in the report by the Migration Research Unit (MRU) of University College London on ““Sizing the Illegally Resident Population in the UK””. A copy of the RDS On-line report 29/05—””Sizing the unauthorised (illegal) migrant population in the United Kingdom in 2001”” can be found at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/notes/june_summaries.html. As in other countries, the number of ““unauthorised”” or ““illegal”” migrants—including failed asylum seekers—in the UK is unknown. The MRU report published last year reviewed the methods used in other countries and assessed their viability for use in the UK. That report suggested that a method which could be applied in the UK is the ““residual method”” used in the United States. The new report details how that method has been applied in the UK. It must be emphasised that, while this method is one that can be used with data available for the UK, over-reliance must not be placed on this result in the absence of the means to produce other estimates using different methods.

Date

5 July 2005

Reference

2849; 436 c374-5W

House

House of Commons

Asylum and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will renegotiate the bilateral agreement with France to enable the UK to send asylum seekers arriving from France back to France to process their claims.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 July 2005

Reference

3626; 436 c113W

House

House of Commons

Asylum and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason applicants for asylum arriving from France are not returned to France.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 July 2005

Reference

436 c112-3W;436 c113W; 3625

House

House of Commons

Asylum Seekers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her policy is on restricting provision of medical care to failed asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 June 2005

Reference

3864; 435 c1597W

House

House of Commons

Asylum Seekers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to meet the French Government to discuss the setting up in France of offices where applicants for asylum in the UK could make an application to British officials; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 June 2005

Reference

3624; 435 c445W;435 c449W

House

House of Commons

Asylum Seekers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were granted (a) indefinite leave to remain and (b) exceptional leave to remain in each of the last eight years.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 June 2005

For answer on

8 June 2005

Answered on

15 June 2005

The latest available statistics on the number of people granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK and those granted exceptional leave to remain can be found in the table.The latest published data on settlement in the United Kingdom are for 2003. Further information on immigration can be found in the Command Paper ‘Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2003' (Cm6363), available from the Library and from the Home Office website http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/commandpubs1 .html. The 2004 edition is due to be published later this year.

Grants of settlement and exceptional leave to remain, United Kingdom, 1996 to 2004⁽²⁵⁾
				Asylum cases granted ELR
	Total grants of settlement					Cases considered under normal procedures
	Total	On removal of time limit (ILR)	Settlement on arrival (ILE)	Total	Recognised as a refugee and granted asylum	Not recognised as a refugee but granted exceptional leave, discretionary leave or humanitarian protection	Considered under backlog clearance exercise4, 5	Exceptional leave granted when applicant had not applied for asylum
1996	61,730	59,610	2,120	7,295	2,240	5,055	—	12,255
1997	58,725	56,375	2,355	7,100	3,985	3,115	—	10,400
1998	69,790	66,895	2,895	9,255	5,345	3,910	—	2,830
1999	97,115	90,275	6,845	21,425	7,815	2,465	11,140	1,480
2000	125,945	117,750	8,190	32,195	10,375	11,495	10,325	1,780
2001	108,410	96,460	11,950	31,640	11,450	20,190	—	680
2002	118,255	109,690	8,560	28,410	8,270	20,135	—	70
2003	143,845	140,985	2,860	11,075	3,865	7,210	—	n/a
2004	n/a	n/a	n/a	5,510	1,515	3,995	—	n/a
⁽²⁵⁾ Information is on initial decisions, excluding the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions.
⁽²⁶⁾ Figures rounded to the nearest 5.
⁽²⁷⁾ Humanitarian Protection (HP) and Discretionary Leave (DL) replaced Exceptional Leave to Remain (ELR) from 1 April 2003.
⁽²⁸⁾ Cases decided under measured aimed at reducing the pre 1996 asylum backlog criteria.
⁽²⁹⁾ Includes cases where asylum or exceptional leave has been granted under the backlog criteria,
⁽³⁰⁾ Provisional data.

Date

15 June 2005

Reference

2971; 435 c444-6W;435 c448-50W

House

House of Commons

Asylum Seekers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to bring forward proposals to hear asylum applications offshore; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 June 2005

Reference

2843; 435 c279W;435 c281W

House

House of Commons

Asylum Seekers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to speed up the asylum process.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 June 2005

Reference

2844; 435 c279W;435 c281-2W

House

House of Commons

Asylum and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum applicants have had their asylum application refused but have not been removed because of successful Human Rights Act 1998 applications in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 June 2005

Reference

2970; 435 c149W

House

House of Commons

Asylum and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time between initial decisions in asylum applications and the hearing of an appeal was in the last period for which figures are available.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 June 2005

Reference

2845; 435 c148W

House

House of Commons

Asylum and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of initial asylum decisions were successfully appealed by the applicant in each of the last five years.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 June 2005

Reference

2841; 435 c147W

House

House of Commons

Asylum and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of asylum applications received an initial decision within (a) one month, (b) two months and (c) three months of application in the last period for which figures are available.

Asked by

Humfrey Malins (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 June 2005

Reference

2847; 435 c148W

House

House of Commons

Date of death	Length ofdetention	Verdict	Establishment
31 January 2003	3 months	Suicide	Haslar
7 May 2003	1 day	Killed	Harmondsworth
1 May 2004	2 months	Natural causes	Haslar
12 July 2004	4 days	Natural causes	Port of Dover

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