Lord Blencathra – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Blencathra on 2016-06-06.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many illegal Albanian migrants have been captured in the UK in the last 12 months, how many have asked for asylum, and how many have been removed from the UK.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
The attached tables shows the number of Albanian immigrants arrested on Enforcement Visits and as a result of Police Enquiries from the 1 April 2015 to the 31 March 2016 inclusively.
|
Year/Month |
Number of Enforcement visits |
Year/Month |
Number of Police Enquiries |
|
2015 04 |
37 |
2015 04 |
117 |
|
2015 05 |
46 |
2015 05 |
135 |
|
2015 06 |
57 |
2015 06 |
109 |
|
2015 07 |
28 |
2015 07 |
119 |
|
2015 08 |
60 |
2015 08 |
120 |
|
2015 09 |
55 |
2015 09 |
128 |
|
2015 10 |
66 |
2015 10 |
151 |
|
2015 11 |
30 |
2015 11 |
134 |
|
2015 12 |
40 |
2015 12 |
117 |
|
2016 01 |
35 |
2016 01 |
127 |
|
2016 02 |
19 |
2016 02 |
147 |
|
2016 03 |
23 |
2016 03 |
154 |
|
Total |
496 |
Total |
1558 |
Asylum applications and returns of nationals of Albanian are released on the GOV.UK website at in the latest Immigration statistics January to March 2016:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release In the asylum table as_02_q
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525625/ asylum2-q1-2016-tabs.ods and the returns table rv_03_q
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525001/ returns1-q1-2016-tabs.ods
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