Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2025 to Question 30711 on Resettlement: Afghanistan, how many Afghans have arrived in the UK (a) legally and (b) illegally since 15 August 2021.

The Home Office published the information you have requested by quarter in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release.

Data on the outcomes of entry clearance visas by nationality are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance dataset. A visa grant does not necessarily mean that the person arrived in the UK. For data on arrivals specifically via the Afghan Resettlement Programme, see table ‘Asy_D02’ of the detailed asylum and resettlement datasets.

Data on detected irregular arrivals by nationality is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK detailed datasets’.

The latest data goes up to the end of December 2024. Data up to the end of March 2025 is due to be published on 22 May 2025. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ pages of the workbooks.