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Written Question
Asylum: Domestic Abuse
Tuesday 5th November 2019

Asked by: Lord Sheikh (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of people seeking asylum in the UK are doing so because they are fleeing domestic violence.

Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford

The Home Office does not record the information in such a way that allows us to report on what percentage of people seeking asylum in the UK are doing so because they are fleeing domestic violence.