HC Deb 07 May 2003 vol 404 c754W
Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Iraqi nationals have been granted exceptional leave to remain in the UK since 1991. [109601]

Beverley Hughes

The table shows the number of Iraqi asylum applicants, excluding dependants, granted exceptional leave to remain in the UK between January 1991 and December 2002. These statistics relate to initial decisions only and exclude the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions.