Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of asylum appeals were successful in each of the years 2005 to 2015.
The Home Office publishes data on the number of Asylum appeal applications and determinations, in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The latest figures are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables.
Table as_14 in the Asylum tables (volume 4) contains annual breakdowns of the number of appeals; figures for the years 2007 to 2017 are available.
Data prior to 2007 can be found in the national archives:
Year | % allowed appeals |
2005 | 17% |
2006 | 22% |
2007 | 22% |
2008 | 23% |
2009 | 29% |
2010 | 27% |
2011 | 26% |
2012 | 27% |
2013 | 25% |
2014 | 28% |
2015 | 35% |
2016 | 40% |
2017 | 35% |