Thangam Debbonaire – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Thangam Debbonaire on 2015-10-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications made by Syrian nationals in each of the last three years were refused on the grounds that the applicant could be returned to a safe third country.
James Brokenshire
In the last three years, the numbers of Syrian nationals (main applicants only) refused asylum on third country grounds were as follows:
26 in 2012
99 in 2013
66 in 2014
The Home Office publishes annual and quarterly data on asylum applications and initial decisions; this is available in Table as_01 (Asylum data tables Volume 1) of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April – June 2015, is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.
