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Asylum: Iraq

Volume 460: debated on Friday 18 May 2007

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Mark Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Iraqis (a) were granted and (b) applied for asylum in the UK in each year since 2003; and if he will make a statement. (136336)

Mr. Byrne

Information on the number of applications received and initial decisions made for nationals of Iraq since 2003 are shown in the attached table.

Decision figures do not necessarily relate to applications received in the same period.

Information on asylum applications and initial decisions for Iraqi nationals are published quarterly and annually. Copies are available from the Library of the House and on the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:

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

Asylum applications1 received in the United Kingdom, excluding dependants, and initial decisions2 on applications, 2003-06, nationals of Iraq

Principal applicants

Iraq

Total Applications

Total decisions

Grants of asylum

Grants of ELR

Grants of HP3

Grants of DL3

Total refusals

2003

4,015

6,805

70

2,105

*

45

4,580

2004

1,695

4,815

10

n/a

—

185

4,615

20054

1,415

1,835

5

n/a

10

150

1,675

20064

950

730

30

n/a

—

60

640

n/a = not applicable. 1 Figures rounded to nearest 5, with '*' = 1 or 2. 2 Information is of initial determination decisions, excluding the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions. Decision figures do not necessarily relate to applications received in the same period. 3 Humanitarian protection and discretionary leave replaced exceptional leave to remain from 1 April 2003. 4 Provisional figures Source: Immigration Research and Statistics Service, RDS.