PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Refugees: Males (20 December 2018)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of refugees who have entered the UK in each of the last five years were male.
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Answer
Refugee status is conferred following a grant of asylum. An asylum seeker may only become a refugee once asylum has been granted. Not all asylum seekers are deemed to be refugees and not all refugees claim asylum.
The Home Office publishes data, in its quarterly Immigration Statistics release, on the number of asylum seekers granted refugee status, by sex (table as_05 Asylum, volume 2).
The latest data cover the calendar year 2017, available at:
Answered by:
Caroline Nokes (Conservative)
14 January 2019
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