Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to issue Afghan asylum seekers in the UK with Notices of Intent, in response to the Taliban takeover of August 2021.

The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of notices of intent issued and can be found online at:

How many people do we grant asylum or protection to? - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)

A breakdown of these figures into nationality is not currently available.

Afghan asylum seekers continue to be issued with notices of intent where appropriate. Inadmissibility rules apply to all nationals where it is considered that there has been an earlier presence or connection to a safe third country.

We have been clear that people should claim asylum in the first safe country that they reach and should not seek to enter the UK illegally. Our New Plan for Immigration underpins this principle.