Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Departments holds on the number of asylum seekers who have arrived in the UK via the Republic of Ireland in each of the last three years.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications to the UK is published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Please note, arrival information for asylum seekers (including the country they travelled from) is not routinely collected as part of the asylum application in a format that allows for large scale reporting.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending June 2023. Data to September 2023 is due to be published on 23 November 2023.

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