Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications her Department has rejected since 8 May 2015.

Quarterly figures on asylum applications rejected in the period April to June 2015 will be published in the Immigration Statistics release, table as_01_q “Asylum applications and initial decisions for main applicants, by country of nationality” on 27 August.

The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on asylum applications and initial decisions within the Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics January – March 2015 is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release and the Library of the House.