Home Department written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for asylum were granted in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010.
The number of asylum applications that were granted in the UK in 2009 and 2010 were 4,188 and 3,488 respectively. A further 2,554 in 2009 and 1,707 in 2010 were also granted discretionary leave and humanitarian protection.
Further information on asylum is available from the Immigration Statistics release 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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