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Mr. Kirkwood
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people with refugee status currently reside in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Peter Lloyd
Around 37,000 people, including sough-east Asian refugees, have been allowed to stay in the United Kingdom as refugees since 1979. Corresponding information for earlier years is not available. Comprehensive records are not kept of those who leave the country, die, obtain British citizenship or otherwise cease to hold refugee status here.