Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people have arrived in the UK in the last two years seeking asylum; how many of those seeking asylum arrived by small boats; and of those who arrived by small boats, how many (1) waited, or (2) are waiting, for over six months to have a decision made on their asylum application.

The Home Office publishes statistics on small boat arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK statistics’ report and on asylum applications in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’ on gov.uk.

The latest data on the asylum outcomes of small boat arrivals is published in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK, year ending December 2022’ release. Data on all asylum applications is published in table Asy_D01 of the asylum and resettlement datasets.

The Home Office does not publish the duration time of asylum-seeking small boat arrivals awaiting a decision. However, data on all asylum applications awaiting a decision is published in table Asy_D03 of the asylum and resettlement datasets.