Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications were made by victims of torture in each of the last eight years.
The Home Office does not record the information in such a way that allows us to report on how many asylum applications were made by victims of torture in each of the eight last years.
The Home Office does publish data which provides the total number of asylum applications for main applicants, by country of nationality, broken down by year. This can be found in tab as_01 at volume 1 of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables
All officials making decisions on asylum claims receive a dedicated five-week foundation training programme which includes specific sections on torture and medical reports and ensure alleged victims of torture are assessed fairly and sensitively.