Diana Johnson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2016-03-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Albanian women (a) with (b) without children claimed asylum in the UK in each year since 2012; and how many of those women were subsequently removed from the UK.
James Brokenshire
Our records indicate the following claims in the 4 years from 2012:
Claim Raised Date |
With Children |
Without Children |
Grand Total |
2012 |
147 |
107 |
254 |
2013 |
263 |
203 |
466 |
2014 |
298 |
242 |
540 |
2015 |
278 |
323 |
601 |
Grand Total |
986 |
875 |
1,861 |
Of these claims the following were removed:
Application/Raised Date |
With Children |
Without Children |
2012 |
6 |
19 |
2013 |
12 |
30 |
2014 |
5 |
27 |
2015 |
1 |
10 |
Grand Total |
24 |
86 |
Caveats
The data has been sourced by searching for claims based on the main asylum claimant and has not used data relating to dependant .
The parameters of the search are claims raised between 01 January 2012 and 31 December 2015 where the claimant is female, has dependant under 18 years of age or no dependants.
Data does not include withdrawn or void applications.
This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.