Home Office written question – answered at on 6 June 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many claims for asylum from people from Yemen have been refused in 2016 to date.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Yemen have claimed asylum in the UK in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016 to date.
There were 111 asylum applications from Yemeni nationals in 2015, and 15 in Quarter 1 (January to March) 2016.
There were 12 refusals of asylum or an alternative form of protection, at initial decision, to Yemeni nationals in Quarter 1 (January to March) 2016.
The Home Office publishes figures on asylum applications and initial decisions by nationality in the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics, January to March 2016, is available from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2016/asylum
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