Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had asylum applications refused and were living in Government-funded accommodation as of 1 April 2025.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum seekers in receipt of support is published in table Asy_D09 of the ‘Asylum support detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to as at 31 December 2024. Data for as at 31 March 2025 will be published on 22 May 2025.

Data on refusals on asylum claims is published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to 2024. This data will include all asylum seekers, not just those in receipt of support.

Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.