Written Question·Home Office·UIN 60833

Asylum

Tabled: 18 June 2025
Answered: 23 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Derek Twigg

LabourWidnes and Halewood

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who have previously reached a another safe country before arriving in the UK have had their applications (a) approved and (b) rejected in each year since 2015.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Available data on third country refusals, where the claimant is believed to have reached a safe third country prior to claiming in the UK, is published in t...

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