Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Albanian women (a) with (b) without children claimed asylum in the UK in each year since 2012; and how many of those women were subsequently removed from the UK.

Our records indicate the following claims in the 4 years from 2012:

Of these claims the following were removed:

Caveats

The data has been sourced by searching for claims based on the main asylum claimant and has not used data relating to dependant .

The parameters of the search are claims raised between 01 January 2012 and 31 December 2015 where the claimant is female, has dependant under 18 years of age or no dependants.

Data does not include withdrawn or void applications.

This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.