Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the five most common nationalities of new asylum applicants making claims to the UK in 2020 were; and how many asylum applications were received by the UK from nationals of each of those five countries.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum applications lodged in the UK by the top 20 nationalities are published in table Asy_01c of the asylum and resettlement summary tables, which include a breakdown for year of application.

The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement

The latest data relate up to year ending December 2020.
Additionally, the Home Office publishes further data on asylum applications in Asy_D01 of the detailed asylum and resettlement datasets.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.