Asylum

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new asylum applications were submitted by individuals who had previously been refused asylum in the UK in 2021.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 28th February 2022

(121813) Our records indicate that a total of 6,760 Further Submissions in support of fresh applications for asylum were lodged in the United Kingdom in 2021.

(121814) The five most common nationalities that lodged Further Submissions in support of fresh applications for asylum in the United Kingdom in 2021 were:

Iraq

1,179

Afghanistan

921

Pakistan

519

Iran

497

China

455

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