Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were granted permission to work in each of the last three years.

The data requested on the number of asylum seekers that were granted permission to work is held on individual Home Office records on the Immigration casework database.

Such data is not extractable without interrogating thousands of individual records. Therefore, the information is not readily available and could only be obtained through a disproportionately expensive manual case search to collate the data.