§ Fiona MactaggartTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people applied for asylum in the UK during 1998; how many of these applied (i) at a port of entry and (ii) within the country; how many decisions were made; and of those how many were(a) recognition as a refugee, (b) exceptional leave to enter or remain and (c) refusal of asylum; and of the refusals, how many were (x) on safe third country grounds, (y) on non-compliance grounds and (z) refused after full consideration of the case; how many applications were withdrawn; and how many asylum applications were outstanding at the end of the year. [85045]
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§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe information requested will be published on 27 May in the annual Home Office Statistical Bulletin, "Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 1998", a copy of which will be placed in the Library of the House on that day.
§ Fiona MactaggartTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people applied for asylum in the UK in(a) March and (b) April; how many people were (i) recognised as refugees, (ii) granted exceptional leave and (iii) refused asylum in each of those months; and how many decisions on the asylum backlog were taken in each of those months. [85043]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe information requested will be made available on the Home Office Internet site at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/index.htm, as part of the monthly reporting of asylum figures, on 25 May 1999.