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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-01-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many asylum applications have been made in each of the last five years by applicants who entered the UK on a student visa; what were the nationalities of each applicant; how many of those applications were refused, and how many unsuccessful applicants were subsequently removed.

Lord Bates

Over the last five years there have been 15,470 cases of individuals who have entered on a student visa and subsequently also went on to claim asylum. Details by year and nationality are below.

Unfortunately the way corresponding data is held on asylum outcome means that to obtain the numbers of cases that were granted, refused and removed could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.

Visa Nationality	Asylum Year					Grand Total
2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Afghanistan	10	26	63	73	69	241
Albania	2		6	3	5	16
Algeria		7	4	2	4	17
Angola			2			2
Armenia	1			1		2
Azerbaijan			4	1	1	6
Bahrain		6	5		1	12
Bangladesh	12	31	167	318	264	792
Belarus	1				1	2
Benin					1	1
Bolivia			1			1
Botswana		1	2	1	2	6
Bulgaria			1			1
Burkina Faso		1				1
Burma (Myanmar)	166	98	42	14	13	333
Burundi	2			1		3
Cameroon	4	3	9	33	52	101
Central African Republic				1		1
China	16	25	95	162	160	458
Colombia	2	3	3	2	1	11
Congo			3	2	1	6
Democratic Republic of Congo	5		7	5		17
Egypt	1	8	12	15	15	51
Equatorial Guinea				1		1
Eritrea	6	2	3	2	3	16
Ethiopia	9	5	6	11	8	39
Gambia	11	9	38	39	32	129
Georgia	2		5			7
Ghana			3	3	2	8
Guinea	3	1	2	5	6	17
HONG KONG					1	1
India	10	26	244	320	294	894
Iran	106	244	464	307	148	1269
Iraq	6	3	15	17	54	95
Israel				1	1	2
Ivory Coast	1	2	5	1	2	11
Jamaica			1	2	2	5
Japan		1		1		2
Jordan	2	4	4	5	3	18
Kenya	6	5	10	12	12	45
Kuwait	1				1	2
Kyrgyzstan	5	3		3	2	13
Lebanon		1	2	6	5	14
Liberia	1				1	2
Libya	7	114	73	57	86	337
Malawi	2	4	10	15	9	40
Malaysia	1			2	3	6
Maldives					1	1
Mali	1	2	1	1	1	6
Mauritius	1	2	3		4	10
MEXICO					2	2
Mongolia		1	2	3	2	8
Morocco		3	6	6	3	18
Nepal	4	3	33	37	25	102
Nigeria	6	12	94	142	136	390
Oman		1			2	3
Pakistan	52	385	1313	1471	1265	4486
Palestinian Authority	18	24	30	25	30	127
Philippines		1	8	12	11	32
Russian Federation	2		1	4	3	10
Rwanda	9	7	3	5	5	29
Saudi Arabia			4	3	6	13
Senegal		4	7	4	3	18
Sierra Leone	1		4	9	2	16
SINGAPORE					1	1
Somalia		1		1	3	5
South Africa		1	1		2	4
SOUTH KOREA			1	2		3
SOUTH SUDAN					1	1
Sri Lanka	230	744	1137	1171	715	3997
St Lucia			1			1
St Vincent & the Grenadines			1			1
Sudan	6	11	23	11	9	60
Syria	8	24	256	251	134	673
Tanzania	10	8	15	17	11	61
Thailand					1	1
Tunisia		2		1		3
Turkey	6	8	10	5	3	32
Turkmenistan	1	1	1	3	3	9
Uganda	7	11	42	33	41	134
Ukraine					9	9
Uzbekistan			1	4		5
Venezuela					3	3
Vietnam	1	1	5	9	17	33
Yemen	2		5	3	5	15
Yugoslavia			1			1
Zambia	1		4	3	4	12
Zimbabwe	14	11	26	15	15	81
Grand Total	781	1901	4350	4695	3743	15470

Note: The figures quoted have been derived from internal management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-04-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many illegal entrants were detected (1) on arrival at a UK ferry port, and (2) subsequent to having entered in a vehicle that had arrived at a UK ferry port, in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

Our records currently indicate that the number of clandestine entrants detected at UK ferry ports was:

2013 756

2014 1,480

2015 1,305

As part of recent changes to the way data is recorded, management information from April 2011 has been refreshed and may differ from the data released in earlier responses.

Previous figures provided for PQ 21106 showed that, at that time, our records indicated that 678 detections had been made at seaports in 2013. Under the new improved recording and reporting system, this figure has been updated to 756.

Clandestine entrants detected in-country with a declared port of departure that is a ferry port:

2013 676

2014 1,343

2015 1,630

This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics. Because the source of this data is a live operational system, operational reports taking data from the system at different times will continue to reflect slightly different numbers.

As part of recent changes to the way data is recorded, management information from April 2011 has been refreshed and may differ from the data released in earlier responses.

Immigration controls operate at Calais, and as such detections at Dover are normally counted as in country. For the purposes of this question, detections at Dover are counted as "at a UK ferry port".

For part (2), data on the ferry port of departure has been used as a proxy for port of arrival, as the latter is not recorded.

Regarding part (2), it must be noted that data for port of departure is incomplete: over the three year period there are more than 15,000 clandestines detected in country with no port of departure recorded. The data for part (2) excludes clandestine entrants whose declared port of departure is Coquelles, as this is a rail port.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-01-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applicants claimed asylum only on discovery in each of the last 10 years; how many of those applicants were granted asylum; and how many of those unsuccessful applicants were removed successfully.

Lord Bates

Over the last 10 years there have been 83,912 asylum claims made by individuals encountered by local Immigration and Enforcement Staff and the outcome of these cases is detailed below.

Year Of Claim	Grant Asylum	Grant Other	Refused	Other	No Decision	Grand Total
2005	70	224	1,636	220	–	2,150
2006	389	713	5,222	938	12	7,274
2007	712	743	5,525	1,244	–	8,224
2008	1,136	1,102	6,010	2,438	7	10,693
2009	695	898	5,236	2,360	5	9,194
2010	965	491	4,796	1,471	2	7,725
2011	1,427	428	4,597	1,476	11	7,939
2012	1,618	288	5,200	2,011	37	9,154
2013	2,464	235	5,697	1,983	145	10,524
2014	4,416	266	4,570	1,389	394	11,035
Grand Total	13,892	5,388	48,489	15,530	613	83,912

Note: The figures quoted have been derived from internal management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.

The table below details the 23,264 cases that have been successfully removed from this group of cases.

Year of Claim	Number of Cases
2005	628
2006	2,461
2007	2,665
2008	2,893
2009	2,628
2010	2,372
2011	2,418
2012	2,598
2013	2,903
2014	1,698
Grand Total	23,264

Note: The figures quoted have been derived from internal management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-04-21.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the (1) EU GDP, and (2) UK GDP, per household in 2030 in each of the three scenarios in the HM Treasury analysis The long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives (Cm 9250) published on 18 April.

Lord O’Neill of Gatley

In ‘HM Treasury analysis: the long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives’ the central estimates for the annual loss of UK GDP under the 3 alternatives (relative to remaining in the EU) in 2030 are: 3.8% in the case of the EEA, 6.2% in the case of a negotiated bilateral agreement, and 7.5% in the WTO case. Expressed in 2015 terms that means a loss of GDP per household of £2,600 for the EEA case; £4,300 for the negotiated bilateral agreement case; and £5,200 for the WTO case.

No estimate has been made of the impact on the EU GDP per household. This reflects a cautious approach, as, for example, the main estimates for the effect of leaving the EU do not take into account the negative economic impacts on the rest of the EU as a result of UK exit or the possible foregone benefits to the UK of future EU reform.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-01-28.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many third country nationals have been transferred to the UK from other EU member states under (1) Article 8, (2) Article 9, and (3) Article 10, of the Dublin Regulations for their asylum cases to be heard by the UK authorities in each of the years for which data are available, and from which EU member state those individuals came.

Lord Bates

Data on cases progressed under the Dublin Convention is recorded on the main immigration database. However, this data is not currently available in the form requested as it is not held in a way that allows it to be reported on automatically.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-05-19.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Neill of Gatley on 6 May (HL7841), what was the actual level of UK GDP estimated in each of the three alternatives studied, and in the case of remaining in the EU.

Lord O’Neill of Gatley

HM Treasury did not produce a forecast of how big the economy would be in 15 years’ time. The analysis of the long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives, provided an assessment of the difference in the size of the economy under the alternatives to EU membership for a given economic forecast. This showed that GDP would be 3.8% lower in an EEA arrangement, 6.2% lower in a negotiated bilateral agreement and 7.5% lower in a WTO arrangement. These are all central estimates.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-01-28.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many asylum seekers have been transferred from the UK to other EU member states under the Dublin Regulations owing to (1) family reasons (Articles 8, 9 and 10), and (2) irregular entry (Article 13.1), in each of the years for which data are available.

Lord Bates

Data is available from 2007. In those years there have been no transfers to other EU member states under the Dublin Regulations owing to family reasons (Articles 8, 9 and 10). The table below indicates those years and numbers where we have transferred cases for reasons of Irregular Entry (Article 13.1)

Year of Return	Returns
2014	20
2015	75

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-05-19.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many European Health Insurance Cards they have issued to citizens of each European Economic Area country in each of the last five years.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The Government does not hold the information requested.

The United Kingdom European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs) enable people living in the UK to travel to the European Economic Area safe in the knowledge that they will be able to receive free or reduced cost healthcare should they need it.

Entitlement to EHICs (in all European Economic Area countries) is based on ‘insurability’ under European Union law, not on a person’s nationality. In the UK, we operate a residency-based healthcare system which means that, ‘insurability’ is generally determined by a person’s residency status.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-02-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what specific benefits are covered by the proposed safeguard mechanism set out in paragraph 2(b) of Section D of the draft Decision of the European Council published on 2 February; in particular, whether (1) Child Tax Credit, (2) Work Tax Credit, and (3) Housing Credit, will be included in the proposed restrictions on access to in-work benefits.

Lord Freud

DWP takes many steps to protect the personal and sensitive information that citizens provide to us, and will apply additional protections to records that, for a variety of reasons, may require it. DWP does not routinely maintain specific counts of these cases and the numbers can fluctuate. However, it is possible to state that in June 2015 DWP applied such controls to approximately 8,000 records relating to individuals at the various stages of gender transition.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-05-19.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the UK is still bound by the provisions of Directive 2005/85/EC on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status despite having not opted in to the recast Directive 2013/32/EU on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

The UK remains bound by the provisions of the Procedures Directive 2005/85/EC and the Qualification Directive 2004/83/EC and not the recast Directives.