Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims by Albanian nationals have been decided since 13 December 2022.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum and returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of asylum applications at initial decision by nationality are published in table Asy_D02 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 Q3 2022.

Outcomes of asylum applications at initial decision data up to the end of December 2022 will be published on 23 February 2023.

The latest data on the top 10 nationalities for asylum-related returns (including Albanians) are available in table Ret_04 of the ‘Returns summary tables’. The latest data relate to the year ending June 2022.

Returns data up to the end of December 2022 will be published on 25 May 2023.