§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his policy regarding the issuing of United Kingdom travel documents to refugees on exceptional leave to remain.
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§ Mr. Charles WardlePeople who have been refused asylum in the United Kingdom but granted exceptional leave to remain, in common with others who are not settled here, have no entitlement to Home Office travel documents. However, it is our practice to look at such applications sympathetically and to issue a certificate of identity to those who can show that they are unable to obtain a passport from their own authorities.
§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many refugees currently in the United Kingdom have been granted exceptional leave to remain; what proportion of these were issued with brown United Kingdom travel documents in(a) 1990, (bv) 1991 and (c) 1992; and if he will analyse these figures by ethnic origin.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe available information is that during the years 1986–92 a total of. 29,000 asylum applicants, excluding dependants, not recognised as refugees were granted exceptional leave. Information on the number who have left the United Kingdom, or been granted leave to stay on another basis, is not readily available.
Information on the number and nationalities of these cases issued with a certificate of identity is not available. Persons with exceptional leave are not identified separately in the statistics of issues of these certificates.