Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of claims for asylum were successful in each of the last five years.
The table below shows the number of asylum initial decisions for main applicants in each of the last five years.
Grant rates for asylum, humanitarian protection, discretionary leave or other grants of stay for main applicants, 2009 to 2013(1)(2) | |||||||||
Year | % Granted | ||||||||
2009 | 28% | ||||||||
2010 | 26% | ||||||||
2011 | 33% | ||||||||
2012 | 36% | ||||||||
2013 | 37% | ||||||||
(1) Figures for 2013 are provisional. | |||||||||
(2) Granted include grants of asylum, humanitarian protection, discretionary leave, leave to remain under family life or private life rules, leave outside the rules and UASC leave. |