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Asylum: Fraud

Commons · Question 89728 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 18 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claimants were found to have provided a false age; and how many of those identified led to claims being rejected.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 18 Nov 2025

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on initial decisions and outcomes on asylum claims, is published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claim and initial decisions detailed datasets’. The lat...