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Asylum

Volume 458: debated on Tuesday 13 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers from (a) Somalia, (b) Iraq and (c) Afghanistan had their application refused in 2006. (124775)

Information on asylum applications, initial decisions and appeals by nationality are published quarterly and annually. These publications, entitled ‘Asylum Statistics 1/2/3/4 Quarter 2006, are too large to be included within the reply. Copies are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html