Home Department written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many appeals relating to visa applications under the asylum category have been (a) upheld and (b) refused in the last 12 months.
It has been assumed that the request is for figures on determinations of appeals on applications for asylum. In the last 12 months for which data are available (July 2010 to June 2011), there were 12,503 asylum appeals determined at the First-tier Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
Of these 12,503 appeal determinations, 3,364 appeals were allowed (upheld) and 8,474 appeals were dismissed (refused). The remaining 665 appeals were withdrawn.
These data were published in Table as.14.q of Immigration Statistics: April to June 2011. Further information on asylum is available from the immigration Statistics releases available in the Library of the House and the Home Office Science website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/science-research/research-statistics/migration/migration-statistics1/
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