Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many Sudanese asylum seekers are awaiting a Home Office decision; and whether the Home Office considers Sudan a safe country to which asylum seekers will be returned if they fail to be given leave to remain.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’ (available on gov.uk). Data on asylum applications awaiting initial decision by nationality can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relate to the year ending March 2023.

All asylum and human rights claims from Sudanese nationals are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations, taking into account relevant refugee law and country information.

The Home Office’s assessment of the general security situation in Sudan for the use of officials handling protection claims is set out in our country policy and information note on this subject of June 2023. This note is available on gov.uk.