Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications were (a) made and (b) concluded in each month of each year since 2010.

The Home Office publishes quarterly data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications and initial decisions are available in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to the year ending June 2024. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.

Monthly data on the number of initial decisions and asylum caseworkers is published in table Asy_05(M) of the ‘Immigration and Protection Data’ as part of the ‘Migration Transparency Data release’. The data covers the period from January 2020 to June 2024. Please note that the number of initial decisions will not match the number of decisions in table Asy_D02 as the figures in Asy_05(M) have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. The number of asylum caseworking staff by financial year is available in table Asy_04 with data available from 2011/12 to 2023/24.