HC Deb 03 June 1991 vol 192 cc86-7W
Mr. Darling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list(a) the number of individual applications for asylum in the United Kingdom and (b) the number of dependants of the principal applicants for asylum received in (i) 1988, (ii) 1989, (iii) 1990 and (iv) January to March in the current year.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

[holding answer 17 May]: Information is not available in the form requested. The available information records dependants by the date of application of the principal asylum applicant and also does not generally include dependants who join a principal applicant after the principal application has been decided.

Available information on total asylum applications, including recorded dependants, is given in the following table.

Applications1 for asylum in the United Kingdom, 1988–90
Year Number
1988 5,570
21989 16,400
21990 30,000
1 Including dependants applying with the principal applicant. and those, to date, arriving subsequently but before the principal

application was decided. Figures are tabulated by the date of the principal application.
2 Provisional figures.

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