Asylum: Applications
(asked on 2nd December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications were initially refused in each month in 2015 to date; and how many such applications were from individuals aged under 18.
The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications and decisions on a quarterly and annual basis.
Statistics on the number of refusals at initial decision for asylum main applicants, for quarter 1 (January to March) 2015 to Q3 (July to September) 2015, are given in the table.
Asylum applications and initial refusals for main applicants, 2015 Q1 to 2015 Q3 (1) | |||||
Total refusals | Of which: | ||||
2015 Q1 | 5744 | 123 | |||
2015 Q2 | 3598 | 104 | |||
2015 Q3 | 3995 | 98 | |||
(1) The information supplied on initially refused applications is based on initial decisions which do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period and exclude the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions. | |||||
The latest release, Immigration Statistics July – September 2015, was published on 26 November 2015 and is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015