Question follow-through · 42400
Visas: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in the UK on student visas later claimed asylum in each of the last five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 31 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 4 Apr 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in the UK on student visas later claimed asylum in each of the last five years.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Apr 2025
Answer published
Data on the ‘Source of asylum claims in 2024’ was published by the Home Office on 30th March 2025. The remaining requested data is not available from published statistics and could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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