Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people have submitted an asylum claim and (b) asylum claims have been processed in each month between July 2021 and July 2022.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications raised are published in table Asy_D01, and data on initial decisions on asylum applications 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 year ending June 2022. Data for July 2022 to the end of September 2022 is set to be published on 24 November 2022.

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