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Asylum: Employment

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainHome OfficeTabled Answered 19 June 2025UIN 59203

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people granted (a) refugee and (b) asylum status entered full-time employment within five years of arrival in the last ten years.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The requested information is not currently available from published statistics, and could only be collated for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

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