Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum claimants categorised as legacy and residing in Northern Ireland are awaiting a decision.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum claims and support in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on legacy and flow cases are published in tables Asy_10a and Asy_10b of the ‘Asylum and resettlement summary tables’. Please note that the Home Office does not publish data on these cases by support status, region or local authority.

The Home Office publishes certain asylum information by local authority. Data on asylum seekers in receipt of support (whilst awaiting a decision) by local authority can be found in table Asy_D11 of the ‘Asylum and resettlement local authority data’ detailed datasets. Asylum seekers are accommodated in Northern Ireland only if they apply for asylum there. Please note that this data does not include individuals not in receipt of support and is not broken down by legacy / flow application status. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.

The latest data relates to 30 September 2023.

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