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Asylum

Asked by Melanie WardLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 23 January 2025UIN 24027

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people claimed asylum by country of origin in each month of 2024.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum claims, by nationality, is published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2024.

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