§ Mr. ParryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many political refugees there are at present in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Peter LloydInformation 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 grants of refugee status is set out in an annual Home Office statistical bulletin (most recently "Refugee Statistics, United Kingdom, 1988", issue 25/89) and in provisional quarterly figures supplied to UNHCR, copies of which are placed in the Library.
Information on acceptances for settlement as refugees is published in the annual command paper (most recently "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom, 1988' Cm 726, table 18), and in a quarterly statistical bulletin (most recently "Control of Immigration: Statistics —Second Quarter 1989", issue 31/89, table 3); copies of which are also in the Library.
§ Mr. ParryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the countries from which persons are seeking political refuge.
§ Mr. Peter LloydAvailable information on pending applications for refugee status, broken down by nationality, is set out in an annual Home Office statistically bulletin (most recently "Refugee Statistics United Kingdom, 1988" issue 25/89) and in provisional quarterly figures supplied to UNHCR, copies of which are placed in the Library.