Asylum: Northern Ireland
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claimants there are in Northern Ireland for which the latest data is available.
Answered by Alex Norris
The Home Office are unable to state how many asylum claimants there are in Northern Ireland as this information is not routinely collated.
The Home Office publishes data on the number of individuals in receipt of asylum support. The most recent published statistics show that, as at the end of March 2026, 2,379 asylum seekers were receiving Home Office support in Northern Ireland (source: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (opens in a new tab) table Asy_D11). This figure does not include asylum claimants who are not in receipt of asylum support, as this information is not available from published statistics and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.
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