Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the employment rate of refugees in Northern Ireland in each of the last ten years.

Data on refugees by location and nationality is available in the Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release on GOV.UK.

• Information on resettled refugees by UK region can be found in Table Res_D01, and by nationality in Table Res_D02 of the Resettlement Detailed Datasets.
• Data on asylum seekers receiving support, broken down by nationality and UK region, is published in Table Asy_D09 of the Asylum Support Datasets.

Please note that individuals only receive refugee status once their asylum claim is granted. The Home Office does not track the addresses of those granted refugee status, and refugees are free to relocate within the UK or leave the country.

The latest available data covers up to the end of June 2025. Guidance on using the datasets can be found on the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.

The Home Office does not hold data on the employment rate of refugees in Northern Ireland. The employment rate of refugees in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021 was 37% for asylum route refugees and 12% for resettlement refugees.