§ 131. Mr. McTaggartTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many refugees are currently residing in Britain; and what is their country of origin.
§ Mr. RentonInformation is not available on the total numbers of those who have been granted refugee status in the United Kingdom and are still living here. Available information on grant of refugee status, by nationality, is set out in an annual Home Office statistical bulletin (most recently "Refugeee Statistics, United Kingdom, 1987", issue 16/88); while information on acceptances for settlement as refugees is published in the annual Command paper (most recently "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom, 1987" Cm 415, Table 18), and in a quarterly statistical bulletin (most recently "Control of Immigration: Statistics—Third Quarter 1988", issue 38/88, table 3).