Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum in the UK were made by people from the Occupied Palestinian Territories during (a) July and (b) August 2016.

The information requested is not held in a readily reportable format. Information on claims is published as part of the Government’s Immigration Statistics quarterly release and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016-data-tables.