Asylum: Coventry
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Jim Cunningham (Coventry South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people resident in Coventry were granted asylum in (a) 2008 and (b) 1997.
Phil Woolas (Minister of State (the North West), Home Office; Oldham East & Saddleworth, Labour)
holding answer
The information is as follows.
(a) During the calendar year 2008, the midlands and east regional asylum team granted 76 cases where the main applicant resided at a Coventry postcode (which includes some of the geographical area in the surrounding county of Warwickshire). Grants of asylum may also have been made in other caseworking areas, but this additional data are not available in a specific regional format. The figure therefore only relates to applications which were handled through the regional asylum team.
(b) Data for specific geographical areas was not recorded prior to the implementation of the new asylum model process in March 2007. There are therefore no specific data for this calendar year.