Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for asylum from Afghan nationals have been (a) made to her Department, (b) rejected by her Department and (c) approved by her Department in the last 12 months.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum applications lodged in the UK and the initial decisions on asylum applications are published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum & Resettlement detailed datasets’; available breakdowns include nationality of the applicant and year and quarter of application or initial decision

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to Q1 2021. Data for Q2 2021 will be published on 26 August with Immigration statistics, year ending June 2021.

Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.

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