Asylum

(asked on 9th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to HMT, Treasury Minutes, CP1668, August 2026, para 7.2 (page 9), if she will list each of the significant challenges that have prevented the Government from updating official estimates of failed asylum seekers in the UK.


Answered by
Anna Turley Portrait
Anna Turley
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 17th September 2026

Producing official estimates of the number of failed asylum seekers is dependent on completion of work to re-establish the assured statistical datasets required after the transition of asylum caseworking to the new Atlas system.

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