The Bishop of St Albans received the following written answers on 19th September 2023:
The Lord Bishop of St Albans asked His Majesty’s Government how many (1) asylum, or (2) humanitarian protection, visas were granted to people from China in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, and (d) 2022.
Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con): The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions made on asylum applications, including grants of refugee permission and humanitarian protection by nationality, can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.
Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relate to the year ending June 2023.
The Lord Bishop of St Albans asked His Majesty’s Government how many officials of the government of China are currently under UK Government sanctions.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con, Foreign Office): The UK has sanctioned four Chinese officials and one Government entity under the Global Human Rights sanctions regime. These individuals/entity were designated in March 2021 in coordination with international partners. They were designated for enforcing repressive security policies across many areas of Xinjiang which amount to violations of the right not to be subject to torture or cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. These measures were taken alongside the US, Canada and the EU, sending a clear message to the Chinese Government that the international community will not turn a blind eye to such serious and systematic violations of basic human rights.
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