§ Ms. HoeyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion. over the last five years, of in-country applications were made within a short period of arrival in the United Kingdom within one week, two weeks and one month.
§ Mr. Charles Wardle[holding answer 16 June 1992]: Comprehensive reliable information is not available. The information available suggests that in 1990 and 1991 around a third of in-country asylum applicants who were admitted to the United Kingdom as visitors or students applied within a month of their arrival.