Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brent Central of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 411W on asylum, what the (a) gender and (b) age of each applicant represented in the table in Scotland was; and whether each such applicant had (i) family and (ii) dependants in Scotland.
Data specific to part a) of your request can be found in the following table.
Region/Country | Band | Female | Male | All |
Scotland | Less than 2 years | 64 | 133 | 197 |
Scotland | More than 2 years | 30 | 35 | 65 |
Scotland | More than 4 years | 22 | 51 | 73 |
Scotland | More than 6 years | 2 | 12 | 14 |
Scotland | All | 121 | 231 | 349 |
We are unable to provide data for part b) of your request for reasons of data
protection.