Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who have applied for asylum in the UK have failed criminal background checks or have been found to have links with extremist organisations since January 2015.

All asylum claims are the subject of rigorous checks to confirm identity, ensure security and minimise abuse of the system. To fully answer this question would require a physical check of every electronic case record and therefore to provide a complete answer would incur a disproportionate cost.