Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been granted refugee status in the UK in the last 12 months.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum claims by nationality in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications by Iranian nationals are published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Data on how many asylum seekers have been granted refugee status are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the end of December 2022. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.