Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the legal status of Southern Cameroons on the number of asylum applications from that region since 2021.

The Home Office has not made a specific assessment that the legal status of those from any part of Cameroon has driven changes in asylum intake since 2021. As with all nationalities, the number of asylum applications can fluctuate for a range of reasons, including wider political, security and humanitarian conditions, and global events.

All asylum claims from Cameroon are considered on their individual merits, in line with the Refugee Convention and the latest available country information.

We will not remove anyone to a country where they will face persecution or serious harm.

Data on the number of asylum claims, broken down by nationality, is published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’. The latest data relates to the year ending March 2026.