Home Department written question – answered at on 9 June 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) asylum and (b) immigration applications he has received from residents of Sudan in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
The available information relating to the number of asylum applications, excluding dependants, that have been received and decisions on applications for an extension of leave to remain or settlement from nationals of Sudan are given in the tables.
Detailed statistics on immigration control are published in the Command Paper "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2002" (cm 6053), obtained from the Library, the Stationery Office and via the Home Office website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/commandpubs1.html.
Information on asylum applications is published in quarterly web pages and in the annual statistical bulletin 'Asylum Statistics United Kingdom'. Copies of these publications and others relating to general immigration to the UK are available from the Library and from the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
Number of principal applicants | |
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1999(12) | 280 |
2000(12) | 415 |
2001(13) | 390 |
2002(14) | 655 |
2003(14) | 930 |
(11) Figures rounded to the nearest 5.
(12) May exclude some cases lodged at Local Enforcement Offices between January 1999 and March 2000.
(13) Provisional figures.
(14) Revised figures.
Number of decisions | |||
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Total grants of extension | Grants of settlement(16) | Total refusals of extension or settlement | |
1998 | 560 | 220 | 50 |
1999 | 530 | 270 | 20 |
2000 | 590 | 810 | 30 |
2001 | 510 | 280 | 35 |
2002 | 545 | 210 | 50 |
(15) Excludes dependants of principal applicants, asylum related decisions, the outcome of appeals and withdrawn applications.
(16) Excludes "in line" dependants and the outcome of appeals.
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