Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum seekers who have had their applications rejected in each of the last five years are having (a) accommodation and (b) financial support paid for through the public purse as of 6 January 2022.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on initial decisions on asylum applications can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relate to the year ending September 2022. Data for the year ending December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

Data on asylum seekers in receipt of support can be found in table Asy_D09 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Please note the data show a snapshot as at the last day of each quarter, rather than the number of asylum seekers receiving support over the entire quarter. The latest data relates to as at 30 September 2022. Data as at 31 December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

Guidance on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum work in progress in the Migration Transparency Data. Data on the number of failed asylum seekers subject to removal action are provided in table Asy_03 of the immigration and protection data.