Written Question·Home Office·UIN 90047

Asylum: Applications

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 18 November 2025

Question

Sarah Pochin

Reform UKRuncorn and Helsby

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether all asylum applications have been subject to the same consideration criteria in the last five years.

Answer

Alex Norris
All asylum claimants undergo mandatory security checks to establish their identity and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks - including war crimes, crimes against humanity and terrorism. To ...

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