Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Legacy backlog cleared as plan to stop the boats delivers, published on 2 January 2024, how many of the 112,000 were granted permanent right to remain in the UK.

The Home Office published data on initial decisions made on asylum cases on 2 January 2024 as part of the Statistics relating to Illegal Migration ad-hoc release. The Additional statistics relating to Illegal Migration (December 2023) release notes that “Of the 112,138 initial asylum decisions [between 1 January and 28 December 2023], 77,019 were substantive decisions Please note that this data is provisional in table Asy_D02 of the Asylum, Applications, Decisions and Resettlement detailed datasets as part of the Immigration System Statistics quarterly release.