§ Mr. DarlingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list(a) the number of individual applications for asylum in the United Kingdom and (b) the number of dependants of the principal applicants for asylum received in (i) 1988, (ii) 1989, (iii) 1990 and (iv) January to March in the current year.
§ Mr. Peter Lloyd[holding answer 17 May]: Information is not available in the form requested. The available information records dependants by the date of application of the principal asylum applicant and also does not generally include dependants who join a principal applicant after the principal application has been decided.
Available information on total asylum applications, including recorded dependants, is given in the following table.
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Applications1 for asylum in the United Kingdom, 1988–90 Year Number 1988 5,570 21989 16,400 21990 30,000 1 Including dependants applying with the principal applicant. and those, to date, arriving subsequently but before the principal
application was decided. Figures are tabulated by the date of the principal application. 2 Provisional figures.