Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications were rejected on the grounds of a false claim of LGB in each year since 2010.

The Home Office publishes data on LGB asylum claims in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions (including refusals) on asylum applications where sexual orientation formed part of the basis for the claim is published in table SOC_02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Please note that information on the reason for refusal is not published and therefore the statistics do not separately identify refusals on the grounds of false claims from refusals for other reasons.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 2022. Data prior to 2015 is not published.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.