Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the asylum claims identified for consideration on inadmissibility grounds since January 2021 and subsequently admitted into the UK asylum system had a period between the asylum claim being submitted and admitted into the asylum system of (a) less than six months, (b) six to nine months, (c) ten to twelve months and (d) over a year.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on inadmissibility can be found in table Asy_09a and Asy_09b of the ‘asylum and resettlement summary tables’. The latest data relate to the year ending September 2022. Data for the year ending December 2022 will be published in future editions of the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

The Home Office does not publish wait times between asylum applications being raised and the outcomes of cases considered under inadmissibility rules.

Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.