Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sudanese nationals have been returned to Sudan on the basis of failed claims for asylum in 2023; and whether her Department considers Sudan to be a safe country for such returns from 15 April 2023.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum and returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on asylum applications awaiting a decision, by nationality, can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to March 2023. Data as at 30 June 2023 will be published on 24 August 2023.

The Home Office does not currently publish data on the waiting times of asylum applications receiving initial decisions.

Data on returns by destination are published in table Ret_D02 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to December 2022. Additionally, the Home Office publishes aggregate returns data broken down by asylum-related and non-asylum-related in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data broken down in this way. Data for asylum-related returns by nationality and destination are not available in the published statistics..

The Home Office’s assessment of the general security situation in Sudan for the use of officials handling protection claims is set out in our country policy and information note on this subject of June 2023. This note is available on Gov.UK.