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Total re fusals
Nationality Iraq Israel Nepal Pakistan Russia Saudi Arabia Syria Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam

2007

July

85

*

*

55

10

0

10

0

5

15

August

85

5

0

50

5

0

10

0

0

5

September

70

0

*

50

5

0

5

*

0

15

October

100

*

*

65

5

0

10

0

5

5

November

80

*

5

75

5

0

5

0

0

10

December

60

*

0

45

5

0

10

0

*

10

2008

January

80

*

0

50

5

0

5

0

0

5

February

100

*

*

60

*

0

5

0

0

15

March

100

*

*

60

*

0

5

*

0

10

April

95

0

*

75

5

0

5

0

5

5

May

65

*

*

65

*

0

5

0

0

10

June

80

*

*

45

5

0

5

*

0

5

(1) Figures rounded to nearest 5, (* = 1 or 2)
(2) Provisional figures

Asylum: Bassetlaw

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people seeking asylum are registered as living in Bassetlaw constituency. [224825]

Mr. Woolas: The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of support are available broken down by Government Office Region, local authority and parliamentary constituency; these regional breakdowns are available from December 2002. There were two or less people in receipt of support in each of the quarters from Q3 2007 to Q2 2008 in the parliamentary constituency of Bassetlaw.

The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of support are published on a quarterly and annual basis. Copies of these publications are available in the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:

Asylum: Deportation

Mr. Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers were deported from the UK in each of the last 11 years. [224551]

Mr. Woolas: The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of asylum seekers removed, including voluntary departures, from the UK on a quarterly and annual basis. The latest published information is provided in the following table and can be found in Table 6.1 of the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2007 bulletin:


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Removals, voluntary departures and assisted returns of asylum applicants( 1) from the United Kingdom, 1997 to 2007( 2)
Asylum cases

 P rincipal D ependants( 3) T otal

1997

7,165

n/a

n/a

1998

6,990

n/a

n/a

1999(4)

7,665

n/a

n/a

2000(4)

8,980

n/a

n/a

2001(4)

9,285

1,495

10,780

2002

10,740

3,170

13,910

2003

13,005

4,890

17,895

2004

12,595

2,315

14,915

2005

13,730

1,955

15,685

2006

16,330

1,950

18,280

2007(5)

12,705

1,000

13,705
n/a = not available. (1) Includes enforced removals, port asylum removals which have been performed by enforcement officers using port powers of removal (and a small number of cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls), persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them, since January 1999 persons leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organization for Migration and since January 2005 persons who it has been established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities. (2) Figures rounded to the nearest five and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. (3) Data on dependants removed are not available before April 2001. (4) Figures may include a small number of dependants leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes. (5) Provisional figures.

Asylum: Kuwait

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Kuwaiti Bidoons have claimed asylum in the United Kingdom in the last five years. [225487]

Mr. Woolas: The requested information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case records.

Information on asylum applications is published quarterly. Copies of asylum publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:

Asylum: Occupied Territories

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people from the Occupied Palestinian Territories were refused asylum in the UK in each of the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years; and how many are awaiting a decision on an asylum application. [225296]

Mr. Woolas: The requested information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case records.

Information on asylum applications is published quarterly. Copies of asylum publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:

Asylum: Sudan

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Darfuris have been (a) granted and (b) refused asylum in the UK in the last three years. [224826]

Mr. Woolas: Information on the number of nationals of Sudan that have been granted and refused asylum in the United Kingdom in the last three years can be found in tables 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 of the annual Statistical Bulletin Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2007, link attached:

and is also available in the Library of the House. It is not known how many Darfuris are included and this could be obtained only by examination of individual case records.

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