The Bishop of Coventry
Bishop
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applications for asylum were made in 2015 and 2016 by those to whom they had previously granted visas to travel to the UK from Iraq and Syria.
Baroness Williams of Trafford
The Minister of State, Home Department
Figures on asylum claims from Iraq and Syria are published as part of the Government’s Transparency agenda. In the period concerned there were the following claims from Iraq and Syria:
Period | Iraq | Syria |
2015 Q1 | 291 | 557 |
2015 Q2 | 295 | 403 |
2015 Q3 | 751 | 856 |
2015 Q4 | 1,311 | 978 |
2016 Q1 | 1,048 | 494 |
2016 Q1 | 838 | 478 |
2016 Q1 | 820 | 348 |
Totals | 5,354 | 4,114 |
Identification of the number of these claims who had previously submitted a visa cannot be supplied for reasons of disproportionate cost.
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