Hilary Benn – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the total number of refugees and asylum seekers from Syria resident in the UK.

James Brokenshire

While published statistics provide data on the number of Syrian’s who have
applied for asylum in the UK (4,714 between 2001-2013), how many have been
granted refugee status (2,182) or refused (2,065) and how many have been
removed (305 between 2004 and 2013), it is not possible to confirm the total
number of refugees and asylum seekers from Syria resident in the UK.