Asylum: Religious Freedom

(asked on 13th September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been granted asylum in the UK on the grounds of a well-founded fear of persecution on account of religion in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 15th September 2016

When an individual makes an asylum claim on religious grounds it is recorded in the interview records and any written representations they provide. Data on asylum claims on religious grounds is not systematically recorded on the Casework Information Database (CID) and therefore it is not possible to provide a breakdown of information in this way without individual analysis of thousands of casework files at disproportionate cost.

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