Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Hanson of Flinton 4 September (HL Deb col. 918), what is their estimate of the proportion of newly recognised refugees who are single applicants and of working age.

The Home Office publishes data on grants of protection and other leave by age at initial decision in table Asy_D02 of the 'Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release' on GOV.UK. The latest data relates to the year ending June 2025.

In the year ending June 2025, 80% (41,574 people) of grants of protection and other leave at initial decision were to people aged between 18 and 69.

A breakdown by single applicant or family group is not available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.