HC Deb 20 June 1991 vol 193 cc251-2W
Mr. Marlow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the main routes by which asylum seekers from Zaire, Angola, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Uganda, Ghana, Turkey, Somalia, Zambia and Ethiopia come to the United Kingdom; and what are the intermediate stopover points en route.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The available information relates to passengers who apply for asylum on arrival in the United Kingdom. Among those who arrived in the first quarter of 1991 and whose point of embarkation or transit is known, more than 50 arrivals of the approximate total of 3,000 are recorded as having come from each of the following:

  • Addis Ababa
  • Bombay
  • Brussels
  • Calais
  • Colombo
  • Delhi
  • Dhaka
  • Entebbe
  • Istanbul
  • Lagos
  • Larnaca
  • Moscow
  • Muscat
  • Nairobi
  • Paris
  • Rome
  • Sofia

Mr. Darling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals made a further application for asylum in the United Kingdom after having the first application refused, in each year since 1988.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Reliable information is not available. Further applications are not included in the figures for new asylum applications.