{"value":{"id":416632,"askingMemberId":1545,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2015-09-04T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2015-09-08T00:00:00","uin":"8912","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have claimed asylum in each of the last three years for which figures are available.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1530,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2015-09-10T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>There were 21,843, 23,584 and 25,033 asylum applications from main applicants in 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively.</p><p>These figures are published in the Immigration Statistics release table as_01 “Asylum applications and initial decisions for main applicants, by country of nationality”.</p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on asylum applications and initial decisions within the Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April-June 2015, is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Asylum","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/416632","method":"GET"}]}