Asylum: Applications
(asked on 23rd March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have been refused as a result of the good character test in each year for which information is available.
This question was answered on 11th April 2016
Guidance on the good character requirement is published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/406368/Chapter18AnnexDv02.pdf
It is a requirement that applies to anybody over the age of ten who applies for naturalisation or registration and therefore plays no part in the assessment of asylum applications.