Select Committee on Home Affairs Minutes of Evidence


APPENDIX A

REMOVALS AND VOLUNTARY DEPARTURES1 OF ASYLUM APPLICANTS, EXCLUDING DEPENDANTS, 1995 TO 1999


1995
1996
1997
1998
19992
3,180
4,840
7,160
6,910
7,645


  Data are rounded to five.

  1 For port asylum applicants the data include persons departing voluntarily up to and including the point of notification of the decision on the asylum application and those persons who have had their asylum application refused and leave the country before they have exhausted their rights of appeal. For in-country applicants, the data excludes persons departing voluntarily before the initiation of enforcement action.

  2 1999 data are provisional.


 
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