Written Question·Home Office·UIN 121303

Asylum: Northern Ireland

Tabled: 17 March 2026
Answered: 24 March 2026

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist PartyStrangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been resettled in Northern Ireland this year.

Answer

Alex Norris
Northern 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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