Asylum

(asked on 29th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people applying for asylum in the UK for whom the UK was the first safe country of arrival, in each year since 2015.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 2nd December 2021

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

Data on the number of asylum applications which received a third country refusal (where the applicant is believed to have reached a safe third country prior to claiming in the UK) are published in table ASY_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data cover up to the end of September 2021.

From 1 January 2021, following the UK’s departure from the EU, strengthened inadmissibility rules came into effect. Prior to the UK leaving the EU, most inadmissibility decisions were made according to the Dublin Regulation, which for the cases in its remit, established the criteria and mechanisms for determining which state was responsible for examining an application for international protection.

Data on the number of cases considered under inadmissibility rules since 1 January 2021 are published in table Asy_09a, and data on transfers into and out of the UK under the Dublin Regulation (prior to 2021) are available in Dub_01 of the ‘asylum and resettlement summary tables’.

Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.

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