Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a person who has arrived in the UK with the intention of seeking asylum is classified in government records as an asylum seeker in the event that the person has been deemed inadmissible under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on asylum applications are published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Data on cases considered under inadmissibility rules are published in table Asy_09a of the ‘asylum and resettlement summary tables’.

When an individual submits an asylum application, they are counted in Asy_D01. If they are later deemed as inadmissible, this will be recorded in table Asy_09, but they will not be removed from table Asy_D01. A person is not considered on inadmissibility grounds if they have not submitted an asylum claim.