§ Lord Bethellasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many Yugoslav citizens have been deported from the United Kingdom in each of the past five years for which records are available, and how many in those years asked for political asylum; how many were granted asylum and how many refused; how many applied for permission to reside in the United Kingdom; how many of those applications were granted and how many refused.
§ Lord EltonThe numbers of Yugoslav citizens deported in the past five years were: 1980–4, 1981–4, 1982–2, 1983–3, 1984–4.
The numbers of Yugoslav citizens applying for asylum and the results of those applications in the last five years were as follows:
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Applications 2 5 6 12 1 Granted - 2 - 1 1 Refused but granted exceptional leave to remain - 1 - - - Withdrawn 1 - 1 4 - Refused - 3 3 8 1 (Note: An application may not be decided in the same year as it is made).
The number of Yugoslav citizens who were granted permanent residence in the United Kingdom in the years 1979–83 were published in Table 18 of Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 1983 (Cmnd. 9246). Information is not available on the numbers of persons whose applications for permanent residence are refused.