Figure 10: Relevant asylum cases last known case outcome as recorded on CID (2001-2010) Last recorded case outcome Other Nationality Currently Unknown Withdrawn Officially Stateless Asylum Granted Stateless Person (Article 1 of 1954 Convention) Asylum Refused Unspecified Nationality 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 Number of cases Source: FOI request 18427 received 18 May 2011 from UKBA performance services team. Please note the figures quoted are not provided under National Statistics protocols and have been derived from local management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. When considering complementary forms of protection granted, it is important to note that on 1 April 2003 the basis upon which complementary protection was granted changed.80 Until that date, 45 per cent of applicants identified as having an “unknown nationality”’ were granted Exceptional Leave to Remain (ELR). Subsequently, grants of Humanitarian Protection and Discretionary Leave only comprised 3 per cent and 12 per cent of the overall caseloads. In conclusion, the data examined in this section indicates that the numbers of stateless persons who are currently recorded as claiming asylum in the UK are relatively small in number, but are recognised as being in need of international protection at a much higher rate than the national averages across all nationality groupings. This is likely to reflect the fact that stateless persons are often subject to discrimination and human rights violations in their country of origin. These two trends arise from both an analysis of the published data and from the UK Border Agency’s management information.81 Kuwaiti Bidouns and Palestinians Two additional CID “nationality” categories of relevance available to UK Border Agency caseowners and screening officers are “Kuwaiti Bidoun” and “Palestinian Authority”. These categories are likely to contain a proportion of persons that the UK Border Agency treats as stateless although many may be entitled to asylum or complementary protection. In the case 80 See APU Notice: Exceptional Leave, Humanitarian Protection and Discretionary Leave, available at: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/policyandlaw/asylumpolicyinstructions/ apunotices/elhpanddl.pdf?view=Binary. 81 It is interesting to note that an analysis of the Refugee Council’s database, which stores records kept on the Council’s clients entered by frontline caseworkers, presents a similar picture. Between 2003 and 2010, 122 individual cases were recorded as ‘stateless’ (30% women, 70% men). This appears consistent with the pattern identified. in the United Kingdom 43