Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylums claims from Iranian (a) women and (b) nationals are outstanding; and how many and what proportion of those claims have been outstanding for more than (i) six months, (ii) one year and (iii) three years.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum claims awaiting an initial decision are published in table Asy_D03 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 30 September 2022.

The published data is broken down by claims awaiting a decision for (i) 6 months or less and (ii) more than 6 months, and by nationality. The published data is not broken down by sex.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.