Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications for asylum were processed in the last 12 months; and what were the determinations arrived at.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the Immigration Statistics Quartlerly Release, which can be found on gov.uk. Data on initial decisions on asylum applications are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’ which can be found on gov.uk and attached as Annex A. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending June 2022. Data for July 2022 to the end of September 2022 is set to be published on 24 November 2022.

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