Asylum (Hansard, 20 December 1990)

§ Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) for each quarter since 1 January 1989, how many asylum applications were made by nationals of Somalia (i) at British posts overseas, (ii) on entry to the United Kingdom and (iii) after entry to the United Kingdom; in each of the above categories, how many of those applications were from dependants of a principal asylum applicant or of someone granted refugee status or exceptional leave to remain in the United Kingdom;

Passengers refused leave to enter the United Kingdom and removed: by nationality, 1989–90
	1989	1990
Geographical region/nationality	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3
Western Europ (excluding EC)
Austria	26	39	32	16	24	22	20
Cyprus	61	37	57	58	40	27	44
Finland	33	13	18	10	8	15	10
Malta	7	5	9	7	8	3	7
Norway	19	27	26	7	23	27	26
Sweden	42	49	49	34	47	41	39
Switzerland	22	18	30	22	27	14	21
Turkey	618	1,082	286	122	82	71	120
Yugoslavia	166	295	322	281	216	230	240
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria	2	5	6	7	15	9	11
Czechoslovakia	4	2	10	2	1	8	24
GDR	2	—	2	7	7	45	2
Hungary	5	8	7	4	4	13	12
Poland	23	43	41	31	25	22	27
Romania	2	8	3	—	3	5	5
USSR	15	13	13	68	10	29	48
Americas
Argentina	19	18	22	12	25	15	16
Barbados	6	7	12	6	6	10	8
Brazil	110	227	203	179	217	256	203
Canada	18	27	43	22	21	20	36
Chile	24	26	22	11	8	20	19
Colombia	116	196	194	133	130	265	177
Cuba	—	1	—	1	—	1	5
Guyana	11	9	10	14	15	11	8
Jamaica	236	195	202	170	160	140	135
Mexico	33	39	45	30	29	35	42
Peru	18	35	31	34	36	37	33
Trinidad and Tobago	18	16	24	18	32	31	37

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(2) for each quarter since 1 January 1989, how many asylum applications were made by nationals of Sri Lanka (i) at British posts overseas, (ii) on entry to the United Kingdom and (iii) after entry to the United Kingdom; in each of the above categories, how many of those applications were from dependants of a principal asylum applicant or of someone granted refugee status or exceptional leave to remain in the United Kingdom;

(3) for each quarter since 1 January 1989, and by country, how many asylum applications were made (i) at British posts overseas, (ii) on entry to the United Kingdom and (iii) after entry to the United Kingdom.