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Written Question
Asylum: Afghanistan
Tuesday 4th November 2014

Asked by: Rory Stewart (Independent - Penrith and The Border)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014 to Question 202954, how many Afghan locally engaged civilians have been granted asylum in the UK since the Minister's reply.

Answered by James Brokenshire

Thirty one Afghans, locally engaged civilians and their families, have been relocated to the United Kingdom under the Ex Gratia Redundancy Scheme to date. Beneficiaries of the scheme are not granted asylum.