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Asylum

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 6 May 2025UIN 47904

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims have been (a) made and (b) processed since 5 July 2024.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum claims and initial decisions on asylum claims is published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of 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 2024.

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