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Asylum: Gaza

Commons · Question 123973 · Tabled 25 Mar 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 17 Apr 2026

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people that entered the UK under the Gaza medical evacuation scheme have applied for asylum.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 17 Apr 2026

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of people claiming asylum by nationality is published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’, while data ...