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Commons · Question 28439 · Tabled 9 Sep 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 17 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to HMT, Treasury Minutes, CP1668, August 2026, para 7.2 (page 9), if she will list each of the significant challenges that have prevented the Government from updating official estimates

Answer

Answered by Anna Turley, 17 Sep 2026

Producing official estimates of the number of failed asylum seekers is dependent on completion of work to re-establish the assured statistical datasets required after the transition of asylum caseworking to the new Atlas system.