Anne-Marie Trevelyan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Anne-Marie Trevelyan on 2016-01-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been granted leave to remain since 2000.
James Brokenshire
The Home Office publishes data on asylum initial decisions in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. A total of 166,445 main applicants have been granted asylum or an alternative form of protection since January 2000. An annual breakdown of this total is provided in the attached table.
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April – June 2015, is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.
