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Asylum: Applications

Asked by Euan StainbankLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 20 January 2026UIN 105606

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of asylum seekers received initial decisions in quarter 4 of 2025 (October to December) compared to quarter 2 2024 (April to June).

Answered by Alex Norris

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions of asylum claims is published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2025.

Data for the year ending December 2025, which will include Quarter 4 of 2025, will be published on 26 February 2026.

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