Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are projected to be in receipt of asylum support for more than one year in financial years (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24, and (c) 2024-25.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum seekers in receipt of support in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. The latest publication (November 2022) can be found here Immigration and protection data: Q3 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) under the document Asylum seekers in receipt of support (opens in a new tab) of the workbooks. Data are published on a quarterly basis. The latest information was published 24 November 2022.

The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of asylum seekers accommodated in specific types of accommodation, the duration of their receipt of support or the number at specific stages of the asylum process. These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.