Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were granted permission to work in the UK in 2020.
Casework systems do not allow us to report on the number of permission to work requests received from asylum seekers or the number subsequently granted permission. Obtaining these figures would require a manual trawl of cases amounting to disproportionate time and cost.
The Home Office does not keep track of how many asylum seekers are in employment.