Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those in the UK on Skilled Worker and Study visa routes have gone on to claim asylum by nationality, per quarter for the last four quarters.

The Home Office publishes data on visas and asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The number of Skilled Worker and Study entry clearance visas and extensions, broken down by nationality, is published in table Vis_D02 of the 'Entry clearance visas datasets' and table Exe_D01 of the 'Extensions datasets'. Data on asylum claims broken down by nationality or broken down by route of entry is available in table Asy_D01 and table Asy_D01a of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’. The Home Office does not currently publish a full nationality breakdown for asylum claims by holders of Skilled Worker visas or study visas.

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, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and availability of data. These reviews allow us to balance the production of our regular statistics whilst developing new statistics for future release.