Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications were (a) made and (b) approved for Humanitarian Protection Leave under the Refugee or Person in Need of International Protection (Qualification) Regulations 2006 in each year since 2016.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum applications are published in table Asy_D01. Data on the number of applicants that have been granted Humanitarian Protection at initial decision 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 December 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.

There is no standalone application for Humanitarian Protection: instead, Humanitarian Protection is considered as part of an asylum application (as per paragraph 327 of the Immigration Rules) following consideration of an applicant’s eligibility for refugee status under paragraph 334 of the Immigration Rules.