Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications were processed to the point of either rejection or leave-to-remain granted in the 12 months leading up to 31 March (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of asylum applications at initial decision 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 end of March 2022.

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