Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Iran have submitted applications for asylum in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2016-17.

The Home Office publishes annual breakdowns of the number of applications for asylum and the number of applications that were refused at initial decision, broken down by nationality, in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The latest figures are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017

Table as_01 contains the total number of applications, the number of initial decisions (broken down by decision type), and the number of cases where a decision is pending, in each year. Table as_01_q provides quarterly breakdowns of these data.

Table as_06 provides additional information on the outcomes of asylum applications raised in a given year.