Refugees: Iraq
(asked on 2nd November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 22 October (HL2920), how many Iraqis have been granted refugee status in the United Kingdom in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 12th November 2015
The numbers of Iraqi nationals (main applicants and dependants) granted asylum or another form of protection in the UK, in each year since 2010 were as follows:
| Number of Iraqi nationals granted asylum or another form of protection in the UK (for main applicants and dependants), based on initial decisions1 | |||||
| Year | Total grants2 | ||||
| 2010 | 169 | ||||
| 2011 | 113 | ||||
| 2012 | 95 | ||||
| 2013 | 109 | ||||
| 2014 | 208 | ||||
| (1) Initial decisions do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period and exclude the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions. | |||||
| (2) Total grants include grants of Asylum, Humanitarian Protection, Discretionary Leave, grants under family and private life rules, Leave Outside the Rules and UASC leave | |||||