Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees from Hong Kong the UK has received since 31 January 2021; and what support the Government has put in place to help those refugees settle in the UK.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Tables Asy_D01 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets include the number of asylum applications, broken down by nationality. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data is up to the end of December 2020.

Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.

Data on asylum applications for January – March 2021, as well as data on the Hong Kong BN(O) visa route will be published in the next quarterly Immigration Statistics on 27 May 2021. Further information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.

The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those that need it – and this Government is committed to ensuring that they can take positive steps towards integration as they rebuild their lives in the UK.

All refugees and those granted protection in the UK should be able to fully integrate into life here and become self-sufficient, providing for themselves and their families, and contributing to the economy.

Refugees in the UK have access to mainstream benefits and services to enable their integration; and we are working across Government to ensure these services meet the needs of refugees.