Asylum: Afghanistan
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims from Afghans were refused in 2024.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions on asylum claims by nationality is published in table Asy_D02 the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.
The latest data relates to the year ending September 2024. Data for October to December 2024 will be published on 27 February 2025.
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