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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 2015-10-23.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 19 October (HL2532), which specific elements of European law require the right to challenge an adverse asylum decision via an effective remedy; and whether the nature of such a remedy is prescribed.

Lord Bates

Article 39 of the Asylum Procedures Directive requires that EU member states must provide an effective remedy before a Court or Tribunal in respect of a decision taken on a person’s asylum application.

The nature of the remedy is not prescribed beyond requiring it to be before a Court or Tribunal.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2015-02-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the annual increase in the United Kingdom of births since 2002 they consider to be due to (1) rising fertility among United Kingdom-born mothers, and (2) births to migrant females.

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and attached a copy of the response.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2015-02-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the increase in successive censuses since 1961 in the number of households in England and Wales they consider to be due to increases in population.

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and attached a copy of the response.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2015-02-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the increase in successive censuses since 1961 in the number of households in England and Wales they consider to be due to net international migration.

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and attached a copy of the response.