Asylum: Gender

(asked on 12th September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people who arrived in the UK by small boats in each of the last three years claimed asylum based on their (1) sexual orientation, or (2) gender identity; and of those, how many have been granted refugee status.


This question was answered on 27th September 2023

The Home Office publishes data on small boat arrivals in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK’ release. Data on asylum applications from small boat arrivals and initial decisions on these applications can be found in tables Irr_D02 and Irr_D03 respectively of the ‘irregular migration detailed datasets’. Please note that information on the basis of the asylum claim (e.g. sexual orientation or gender identity) is not published.

Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relate to the year ending June 2023.

Additionally, data on asylum claims on the basis of sexual orientation can be found in tables SOC_00, SOC_01 and SOC_02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement datasets’, as part of the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Please note that this data is not broken down by method of arrival to the UK (i.e. small boats). The latest data relate to 2022.

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