ASYLUM
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of asylum applicants were granted (a) asylum or humanitarian protection and (b) neither in each of the last five years. [155567]
Mr Harper, Minister of State for Immigration: The table shows the total number of asylum applications received in each of the last five years, and what proportion of asylum applicants are estimated to have been (i) granted asylum, (ii) granted humanitarian protection or discretionary leave, (iii) refusals, and (iv) cases where a decision was not known for the years 2007 to 2011, as at May 2012 when the statistics were compiled. Figures relate to main applicants only, and include the outcome of appeals.
Figures for 2012 will be published in the Immigration Statistics April to June 2013 release on 29 August 2013.
The data presented above, are published in table as.06 (Asylum data tables Volume 2) of Immigration Statistics. The latest release Immigration Statistics October to December 2012 is available in the Library of the House and from the Home Office Science website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/re...
| Table 1: Estimated outcome analysis of asylum applications, as at May 2012 | |||||
| Year of application(1) | Total main applicants | Grants of asylum as a percentage of applications | Grants of HP/DL as a percentage of applications(2) | Refusals as a percentage of applications | Cases decision not known as a percentage of applications(3) |
| 2007 | 23,431 | 25 | 10 | 60 | 4 |
| 2008 | 25,932 | 27 | 11 | 58 | 4 |
| 2009 | 24,487 | 28 | 11 | 58 | 3 |
| 2010 | 17,916 | 28 | 9 | 60 | 3 |
| 2011 | 19,865 | 30 | 7 | 50 | 13 |
| (1) Year relates to the period in which the application was made; the actual initial decision and/or appeal may have occurred in a different year. (2) HP = Humanitarian protection DL =Discretionary Leave. Figures shown include grants of Discretionary Leave. (3) ‘Cases with decision not known’ reflect that no confirmation of a decision on the case/appeal had been received when the statistics were compiled on 7 May 2012. Note: Provisional data. | |||||