Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2023 to Question 140250 on Asylum: Correspondence, how many notices of intent were sent in 2022; and what estimate her Department has made of the number of such notices that will be issued in 2023.

The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of individuals issued a notice of intent and can be found online at How many people do we grant protection to? - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The Government is committed to tackling the ruthless criminal gangs who facilitate illegal immigration, risk lives and damage communities by smuggling people into the UK. The Government will be bringing forward legislation to make it unambiguously clear that, if you enter the UK illegally, you should not be able to remain here. Instead, you will be detained and promptly returned either to your home country or to a safe country where your asylum claim will be considered.