Speeches

Stuart C. McDonald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stuart C. McDonald on 2016-04-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many further submissions under rule 353 of the Immigration Rules were made in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.

James Brokenshire

Our records indicate that 22,149 1 further submissions under rule 353 of the Immigration Rules were made from 2013 to 2015. The breakdown of applications received is 8,088 during 2013, 7,206 in 2014 and 6,855 for 2015.

1 Relates to 18,143 people – due to a number of individuals making multiple further submissions.

Notes:

• The data only includes further submissions that are linked to an Asylum claim.

• The data includes main applicants only and does not include dependants.

• The data covers further submissions applications made between 01/01/2013 and 31/12/2015 (in line with data publications under the transparency agenda).

The data provided is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.