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Immigration: European Convention on Human Rights

Asked by Jake RichardsLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 11 April 2025UIN 44146

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) claim asylum and (b) receive leave to remain based solely on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

The Hon Member may be interested to know that grants of leave under family and private life rules are an unpublished subset of ‘Other Grants’ which can be found on tab Asy_D02 of the quarterly Immigration System Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables.

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