New Clause 17 - Migration statistics
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill
3:15 pm
'(1) The Secretary of State shall, each year, publish information on the number of persons subject to immigration control who—
(a) in the immediately forgoing year have arrived in or departed from the United Kingdom;
(b) are estimated in the year in which the information is published to have arrived in or departed from the United Kingdom; and
(c) are forecast to be arriving in or departing in the ensuing year from the United Kingdom; and
(d) the number of their dependants resident outside the United Kingdom.
(2) Information published under this section shall, as far as possible, distinguish
(a) those persons—
(i) seeking asylum,
(ii) granted asylum,
(iii) removed having been refused asylum,
(iv) in the United Kingdom pending decision,
(v) in the United Kingdom pending removal, and
and the number of dependants of each;
(b) those persons with permission to settle in the United Kingdom and—
(i) doing so; and
(ii) not doing so.
(c) those persons who have been granted extraordinary leave, or are otherwise lawfully entitled, to remain in the United Kingdom and are—
(i) doing so; and
(ii) not doing so.
(d) the number of persons unlawfully in the United Kingdom;
(e) the age and gender of such persons covered by (a), (b), (c) or (d) above.
(3) Where any information subject to this section is not available to him, the Secretary of State shall publish his best estimate.'.—[Mr. Andrew Turner.]
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