Written Question·Home Office·UIN 121303
Asylum: Northern Ireland
Tabled: 17 March 2026
Answered: 24 March 2026
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been resettled in Northern Ireland this year.
Answer
Alex NorrisNorthern Ireland is not a dispersal area and asylum seekers are therefore not routed between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Only those claiming asylum in Northern Ireland are accommodated there. Northern Ireland’s asylum population is, however, propo...
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