Lord Roberts of Llandudno – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Roberts of Llandudno on 2016-02-29.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many asylum applications by those aged 18 to 25 have been overturned on appeal in the past five years.
Lord Bates
The table provided gives annual figures for the number of appeals allowed from applicants aged between 18 and 25 at the time of applying for asylum. This is a subset of published data.
Asylum appeals allowed, for applicants aged 18 to 25 at the time of asylum application, 2011 to 2015
Year |
Appeals allowed, age 18 to 25 (1) |
2011 |
804 |
2012 |
622 |
2013 |
549 |
2014 |
476 |
2015 |
949 |
Source: Home Office, subset of published appeals allowed figures in table as_14, volume 4 of the Asylum data tables, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015
(1) Age relates to the age at initial asylum application
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015.