Speeches

Pete Wishart – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pete Wishart on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brent Central of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 411W on asylum, what the (a) gender and (b) age of each applicant represented in the table in Scotland was; and whether each such applicant had (i) family and (ii) dependants in Scotland.

James Brokenshire

Data specific to part a) of your request can be found in the following table.

Region/Country

Band

Female

Male

All

Scotland

Less than 2 years

64

133

197

Scotland

More than 2 years

30

35

65

Scotland

More than 4 years

22

51

73

Scotland

More than 6 years

2

12

14

Scotland

All

121

231

349

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