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Asylum: Applications

Asked by Neil O'BrienConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 1 August 2024UIN 1554

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum were (a) granted and (b) refused by (i) year of age, (ii) sex and (iii) country of origin in the last 12 months.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications by age, sex, and nationality are published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘Asylum Applications, Decisions and Resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data is up to March 2024.

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