Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were granted permission to work in the UK in 2021.
The Home Office are unable to state how many people seeking asylum were in employment in 2021 or how many asylum applicants were granted permission to work in 2021 as this information is not published and is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore, the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work is not held in a reportable format.