Asylum
Commons · Question 120268 · Tabled 11 Mar 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 17 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by James McMurdock
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled Visa brake imposed on 4 countries after widespread visa abuse, published on 4 March 2026, what estimate she has made of the number of asylum c
Answer
Answered by Mike Tapp, 17 Mar 2026
It is estimated that the brake will reduce the number of asylum claims from migrants arriving in the UK on visas by 1,400 over an 18-month period.The brake does not cancel existing visas, nor does it change the conditions of visas already granted.