Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on how many people have claimed asylum after arriving in land-based vehicles in each of the last 12 months.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications can be found in table Asy_D01 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relate to the year ending December 2022. Data for the year ending March 2023 will be published on 25 May 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

This data is not available broken down by method of entry. The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular Migration to the UK statistics’ report. Data on detected irregular arrivals by method of entry are published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK detailed dataset’ with the latest data up to the end of December 2022. However, data on how many irregular arrivals claim asylum is only published for small boat arrivals.