Immigration: Appeals

(asked on 22nd October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals heard at the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) were on the grounds that removal of the appellant from the UK would breach the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many of those appeals were successful in each of those months.


Answered by
Sarah Sackman Portrait
Sarah Sackman
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 27th October 2025

The number of asylum, protection and revocation of protection appeals (those lodged on grounds relating to breach of the UK’s Refugee Convention obligations) determined by the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal and the number of those that were successful and allowed by the Tribunal can be found in the following table:

Table 1. First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) - Number of appeals determined at hearing or on paper for Asylum/Protection/Revocation of Protection(1), April 2024 to March 2025(2)

Year

Month

Determined at hearings / papers

Allowed/Granted

2024

April

691

318

2024

May

832

360

2024

June

787

378

2024

July

1,006

488

2024

August

863

422

2024

September

994

447

2024

October

1,174

578

2024

November

1,198

534

2024

December

992

438

2025

January

1,085

479

2025

February

1,216

513

2025

March

1,301

553

The table shows the latest 12 months of available data. Published statistics can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2025.

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