Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum applications are granted upon first application.

The Home Office routinely publishes information on the total number of initial decisions on asylum applications, by outcome. This data can be found at This data can be found at Asy_02a of the published Immigration Statistics:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2020/list-of-tables