Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum cases his Department has identified as complex in each of the last 10 years for which data are available.

The Home Office does not publish data relating to the number of cases identified as non-straightforward in each of the last ten years.

Furthermore, whilst we can provide data on the current addresses of asylum claimants, data on the place of residence and whether or not their case is identified as non-straightforward can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

However, data on the number of non-straightforward cases awaiting an initial asylum decision can be found in tabs labelled ASY 10 and ASY 11 in the Asylum Transparency Data contained in the link below; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-february-2018

Data on the number of asylum claims in the last ten years can be found in tab as_01 of the Immigration Statistics release which can be found in the following link; https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables