Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Nigeria sought asylum in the UK in each of the last three years.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on the number of asylum applications by nationality are published in table Asy_D01 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 Q1 2022.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.