Asylum: Appeals

(asked on 12th March 2018) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 26th March 2018

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:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218143229/http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hosbarchive.html

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%

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