§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Hill) of 16 January,Official Report, column 483, if he will set out the reasons for the unreliability of the information requested on the route of arrival of applications for asylum. [11723]
§ Mr. KirkhopeThe information in question is not available because many port asylum applicants destroy or dispose of their travel documents and it is often not possible to establish from which country they have travelled to the United Kingdom. Where the information is known in individual cases, it is not recorded centrally.