Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many claims his Department has dealt with from asylum seekers from Iran over the last five years; and how many of those claims were (a) accepted and (b) refused.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications and initial decisions (including the number of grants and refusals), broken down by nationality, in the quarterly Immigration Statistics publication. The latest figures, up until June 2018, are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018