Written Question·Home Office·UIN 189552

Asylum: Applications

Tabled: 14 June 2023
Answered: 23 June 2023

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal DemocratWestmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to table Asy_09a of the Asylum and Resettlement Summary tables for the year ending March 2023, for what reasons there was an increase in the number of asylum applications admitted into

Answer

Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not routinely record reasons why each individual was admitted to the UK asylum process and this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.