Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
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.
Answered by James Brokenshire
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.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have claimed asylum in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
There were 21,843, 23,584 and 25,033 asylum applications from 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.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted for failing to present a passport to an immigration officer at a UK port of entry in each of the last three years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The number of individuals convicted under section 2 of the Immigration Act 2004 for failing to present a passport at immigration control at UK ports is as follows:
2014/2015 (Apr to Mar) – 31.
Before 2014, this information was not recorded centrally.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have arrived at UK airports without travel documents in each of the last three years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This information is not held centrally.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police forces have access to Government data on benefit payments in order to assist in locating wanted persons.
Answered by Mike Penning
Police forces do not routinely have access to government data on benefit payments. If benefit data is required in order to assist with locating wanted
persons, it can be requested from the appropriate government department. Each request is carefully considered on a case-by-case basis to ensure compliance
with the relevant legislation, including the Data Protection Act 1998.
There is a memorandum of understanding between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) for
disclosures that determine how the DWP provides data. All requests are managed through a central disclosure unit on a case-by case-basis. ACPO do not have
direct access to the data.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been deported to other European countries in each of the last four years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The table below provides the total number of enforced removals of asylum cases to other European countries, in each year from 2010 to 2013.
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Deportations are a specific subset of removals which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. The deportation order prohibits the person returning to the UK until such time as it may be revoked. It is not possible to separately identify deportations from enforced removals.
It is not possible within these figures to say at what stage in the asylum process individuals have reached at the time of their removal, including
whether their claim has failed at that point, as those departing voluntarily can do so at any stage without necessarily notifying the Home Office.
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of persons removed or departed voluntarily from the UK and on persons refused entry to the United Kingdom within Immigration Statistics. The data on removals and voluntary departures by type are available in the latest release, Immigration Statistics: April – June 2013, tables rv.06 and rv.06.q from GOV.UK on the statistics web pages at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release and will be placed in the Library of the House.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which people from Wales responded to the consultation on the relaxation of licensing hours during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Answered by Norman Baker
The Government received 25 responses to the online consultation on the
relaxation of licensing hours during the FIFA World Cup from respondents who
identified themselves as living or working in Wales. This included nine from
members of the public, seven from licensing authorities, three from the
licensed trade or trade organisations and two from the police and four from
‘other'. The response to the consultation is available online at the gov.uk
website.