Asylum
(asked on 4th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many asylum claims were made between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2017; and how many were (1) accepted, (2) rejected, and (3) went to appeal and were overturned.
The Home Office publishes data on the number of initial decisions for main applications each quarter, by nationality, in table as_01_q of the Immigration Statistics release.
The latest figures are available at the following link - please see table attached (asylum 1-jul-sept 2017 tables as_01q) for further information.
The Home Office also publishes data on asylum appeals in table as_14_q in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release, found here: (see table as_14_q - below)
Table as_14_q: Asylum appeal applications and determinations, by country of nationality | |||||||
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Quarter | Geographical region | Country of nationality | Appeals received | Total appeals determined | Appeals allowed | Appeals dismissed | Appeals withdrawn |
2007 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 3,186 | 3,222 | 692 | 2,362 | 168 |
2007 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 3,196 | 3,328 | 767 | 2,390 | 171 |
2007 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 2,943 | 3,358 | 737 | 2,475 | 146 |
2007 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 2,248 | 2,487 | 588 | 1,797 | 102 |
2008 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 1,876 | 2,044 | 411 | 1,527 | 106 |
2008 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 2,278 | 1,910 | 364 | 1,466 | 80 |
2008 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 2,844 | 2,508 | 611 | 1,805 | 92 |
2008 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 2,714 | 2,747 | 738 | 1,857 | 152 |
2009 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 2,250 | 2,329 | 608 | 1,626 | 95 |
2009 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 2,986 | 2,505 | 671 | 1,752 | 82 |
2009 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 4,699 | 3,883 | 1,200 | 2,537 | 146 |
2009 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 4,405 | 4,096 | 1,233 | 2,712 | 151 |
2010 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 3,750 | 4,121 | 1,163 | 2,797 | 161 |
2010 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 3,706 | 3,932 | 1,082 | 2,700 | 150 |
2010 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 3,263 | 3,628 | 979 | 2,486 | 163 |
2010 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 3,209 | 3,042 | 805 | 2,078 | 159 |
2011 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 2,880 | 3,057 | 837 | 2,091 | 129 |
2011 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 2,639 | 2,812 | 741 | 1,840 | 231 |
2011 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 2,317 | 2,654 | 658 | 1,822 | 174 |
2011 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 2,150 | 2,074 | 543 | 1,386 | 145 |
2012 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 2,278 | 2,230 | 614 | 1,472 | 144 |
2012 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 1,988 | 2,172 | 609 | 1,452 | 111 |
2012 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 1,924 | 2,015 | 522 | 1,327 | 166 |
2012 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 2,007 | 1,868 | 463 | 1,221 | 184 |
2013 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 2,332 | 1,930 | 481 | 1,308 | 141 |
2013 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 2,491 | 2,311 | 586 | 1,555 | 170 |
2013 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 2,208 | 2,274 | 560 | 1,571 | 143 |
2013 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 1,488 | 1,810 | 451 | 1,247 | 112 |
2014 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 1,361 | 1,535 | 447 | 1,018 | 70 |
2014 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 1,580 | 1,496 | 376 | 1,036 | 84 |
2014 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 2,177 | 1,426 | 426 | 921 | 79 |
2014 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 3,123 | 1,721 | 509 | 1,106 | 106 |
2015 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 4,278 | 2,283 | 659 | 1,520 | 104 |
2015 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 3,576 | 2,339 | 752 | 1,457 | 130 |
2015 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 3,108 | 2,576 | 972 | 1,478 | 126 |
2015 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 3,280 | 2,026 | 877 | 1,056 | 93 |
2016 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 3,015 | 2,010 | 849 | 1,058 | 103 |
2016 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 3,144 | 2,967 | 1,368 | 1,484 | 115 |
2016 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 3,141 | 3,409 | 1,384 | 1,922 | 103 |
2016 Q4 | *Total | *Total | 3,033 | 4,195 | 1,450 | 2,450 | 295 |
2017 Q1 | *Total | *Total | 2,590 | 5,205 | 1,806 | 3,111 | 288 |
2017 Q2 | *Total | *Total | 2,418 | 3,455 | 1,175 | 2,143 | 137 |
2017 Q3 | *Total | *Total | 2,659 | 2,850 | 1,050 | 1,690 | 110 |