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Annual asylum applications at a fifteen year low: record number of foreign national prisoners removed
20 November 2007
Quarterly asylum, accession monitoring and citizenship statistics published today
Britain's tougher border controls have led to the lowest level of asylum applications in 15 years, according to statistics published by the Home Office today.
At the same time, the Border and Immigration Agency revealed it has removed a record 3,500 foreign national prisoners so far this year, and this quarter (July to September) has overseen a 15 per cent increase in all enforced removals and voluntary returns (to 6,330) compared to the same period last year.
Altogether this year 45,000 people have been removed from the UK, as quarterly enforced returns matched the all time high of 2003.
In a letter to the Home Affairs Committee, Chief Executive of the Border and Immigration Agency, Lin Homer, confirmed that the agency was on track to deport 4,000 foreign national prisoners this year.
Lin Homer said:
"Our enforcement teams are removing more people than ever, and already this year we have removed around a 1,000 more foreign national prisoners than in the whole of 2006.
"While there has been a drop in the removal of failed asylum seekers including a decline in assisted voluntary returns, the overall picture shows significant increases in the enforced removals of those who broke British laws like illegal workers and foreign prisoners. This reinforces our commitment to tackle the most harmful people first.
"We will not rest on our laurels. We will toughen our borders further, which is why we are introducing biometric visas to tie travellers to one identity, an e-Borders programme which counts everyone in and out of the country, and ID cards for foreign nationals in Britain."
Between January and September 2007 there were 16,520 principal asylum applications lodged, this represents a seven per cent fall in applications compared to the same period in 2006. It is also the lowest number of applications since 1992.
Today's figures show that in the third quarter of this year, between July and September, there were 5,890 principal asylum applications.
Borders and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne said today:
"In March this year I said the first people we should send home are those who break British laws.
"Now we've removing record numbers of foreign criminals including illegal workers who risk undercutting UK wages.
"Although assisted voluntary returns are down, we are delivering record enforced removals.
"Simultaneously tougher border security has helped deliver the lowest level of asylum claimants since the beginning of the 1990s.
"But the system needs to be faster and tougher. So foreign criminals will soon face automatic deportation in the new year and I'm opening almost 25 per cent more detention space by next Christmas - including a new detention centre right next to Gatwick Airport."
In the first nine months of the year 9,060 failed asylum seekers, excluding dependents, were removed from the UK.
The Border and Immigration Agency case workers also made 5,230 initial asylum decisions between July and September this year - an increase of 15 per cent on the same time period in 2006.
Also published today are figures for the number of Bulgarians and Romanians registering to work in the United Kingdom. They show that between July and September 2007 7,455 had their applications granted - 20 per cent lower than the 9,335 granted in Quarter Two.
An additional 200 were issued cards for the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS), compared with 3,980 in the previous quarter.
Bulgarians and Romanians are coming to the United Kingdom to work ? contributing to the success of the economy and working in business, financial services, as researchers and in the entertainment and leisure industry.
Alongside today's Bulgarian and Romanian figures the Home Office is also publishing
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