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Asylum: Personal Names

Commons · Question 58410 · 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, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) asylum seekers and (b) failed asylum claimants that have used multiple identities or aliases while in the UK.

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...