Home Department written question – answered at on 5 February 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many unaccompanied minors have arrived in the country seeking asylum in each year since 1999; and how many of them were granted asylum.
The table shows the number of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) applications, initial decisions and grants of asylum, Exceptional Leave to Remain (ELR), Humanitarian Protection (HP) and Discretionary Leave (DL) between 1999 and September 2009. Statistics on UASC asylum decisions and outcomes until 2002 are not available. Figures only include initial decisions on UASC asylum applications and not any later asylum decisions (e.g. after appeal).
Information on asylum applications is published annually in the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom bulletin which is available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children application s( 1, 2, 3 ) received in the United Kingdom, excluding dependants, and initial decisions( 4) on applications by year, all nationals | ||||||||
Applications | Total decisions( 4) | Grants of asylum | Grants of ELR( 5) | Grants of HP( 5) | Grants of DL( 5) | |||
Total | Port | In-country | Number | Total granted | Total ELR | Total HP | Total DL | |
1999 | 3,350 | 1,500 | 1,850 | (6)- | (6)- | (6)- | (7)- | (7)- |
2000 | 2,735 | 1,395 | 1,340 | (6)- | (6)- | (6)- | (7)- | (7)- |
2001 | 3,470 | 1,645 | 1,820 | (6)- | (6)- | (6)- | (7)- | (7)- |
2002 | 6,200 | 1,240 | 4,955 | 6,990 | 585 | 4,830 | (7)- | (7)- |
2003 | 3,180 | 645 | 2,535 | 3,835 | 150 | 1,255 | 15 | 1,525 |
2004 | 2,990 | 540 | 2,455 | 3,440 | 85 | (7)- | 20 | 2,505 |
2005 | 2,965 | 445 | 2,520 | 2,835 | 150 | (7)- | 20 | 1,965 |
2006 | 3,450 | 395 | 3,055 | 2,880 | 195 | (7)- | 10 | 1,960 |
2007 | 3,645 | 480 | 3,165 | 3,385 | 445 | (7)- | 15 | 1,780 |
2008(8) | 4,285 | 380 | 3,905 | 3,375 | 335 | (7)- | 15 | 1,795 |
January-September 2009(8) | 2,400 | 200 | 2,200 | 2,645 | 265 | (7)- | 15 | 1,490 |
(1) Figures are rounded to the nearest five and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. (2) Figures exclude cases where the age of the applicant is disputed. (3 )An Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) is a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age; is applying for asylum in his or her own right and; is separated from both parents and is not being cared for by an adult who by law or custom has responsibility to do so. (4) The year of asylum application may not be the same as the year of initial asylum decision. (5) Humanitarian Protection (HP) and Discretionary Leave (DL) replaced Exceptional Leave to Remain (ELR) from 1 April 2003. (6) Not available. (7) Not applicable. (8) Provisional figures. |
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