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Asylum: Applications

Commons · Question 105606 · Tabled 13 Jan 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 20 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Euan Stainbank

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of asylum seekers received initial decisions in quarter 4 of 2025 (October to December) compared to quarter 2 2024 (April to June).

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 20 Jan 2026

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions of asylum claims is published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’. The latest data relates to t...