§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report, by country of origin, for each month in 1979 the number of those who have been granted political asylum in Great Britain.
§ Mr. RaisonI regret that figures are not readily available on a monthly basis. The following table gives, by nationality, the numbers granted asylum during 1979:
Afghanistan 7 Argentina 96 Bulgaria 3 Burma 5 Chile 58 Colombia 2 Czechoslovakia 7 Ethiopia 115 Ghana 11 Hungary 18 Iran 435 Iraq 14 Pakistan 3 Poland 10 Romania 2 Rwanda 1 South Africa 14 Singapore 3 Syria 2 Uganda 20 Uruguay 2 USSR 1 Vietnam, Kampuchea and Cambodia* 5,187 Yugoslavia 1 Zaire 1 TOTAL 6,018 * Mostly Vietnamese "boat people".