Written questions

Asylum: Personal Names

Commons · Question 58407 · Tabled 9 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 17 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have formally changed name since 2015; and how her Department monitors that data.

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 17 Jun 2025

All asylum claimants are subject to the Home Office’s mandatory security checks to establish and verify their identity, and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to...