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Mr. Christopher Price
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report, by country of origin, for each month in 1979 the number of those who have been granted political asylum in Great Britain.
Mr. Raison
I regret that figures are not readily available on a monthly basis. The following table gives, by nationality, the numbers granted asylum during 1979:
| Afghanistan | 7 |
| Argentina | 96 |
| Bulgaria | 3 |
| Burma | 5 |
| Chile | 58 |
| Colombia | 2 |
| Czechoslovakia | 7 |
| Ethiopia | 115 |
| Ghana | 11 |
| Hungary | 18 |
| Iran | 435 |
| Iraq | 14 |
| Pakistan | 3 |
| Poland | 10 |
| Romania | 2 |
| Rwanda | 1 |
| South Africa | 14 |
| Singapore | 3 |
| Syria | 2 |
| Uganda | 20 |
| Uruguay | 2 |
| USSR | 1 |
| Vietnam, Kampuchea and Cambodia* | 5,187 |
| Yugoslavia | 1 |
| Zaire | 1 |
| TOTAL | 6,018 |
| * Mostly Vietnamese "boat people". | |