Asylum: Northern Ireland
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers in Northern Ireland are awaiting a decision, broken down by length of wait.
Answered by Alex Norris
The information requested about the number of asylum seekers in Northern Ireland awaiting appeal, further submissions, or decision broken down by length of wait is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
The Home Office publishes the total number of cases awaiting an initial asylum decision in the ASY_02 table of Immigration and Protection Data: October to December 2025 available here: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK.
Information on the number of asylum and further submissions appeals is published by HMCTS and is available here: Tribunals statistics quarterly: October to December 2025 - GOV.UK.
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