To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of claims for asylum from countries which share a border with the Ivory Coast.
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Neville-Jones): The table attached shows the number of asylum applications received in the UK, excluding dependants, for nationals of Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Mali between 2005 and Quarter 3, 2010.
Information on asylum applications is published monthly, quarterly and annually in the Control of Immigration bulletins and monthly asylum applications tables available from the Home Office’s Research, Development and Statistics website at: www.homeoffice. gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html.
(1) Figures rounded to the nearest 5 (- = 0. * = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding.