Question follow-through · 58407
Asylum: Personal Names
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have formally changed name since 2015; and how her Department monitors that data.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Undocumented Migrants: Immigration Controls · 10 Jun 2025
- Asylum: Employment · 11 Jun 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have formally changed name since 2015; and how her Department monitors that data.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
All asylum claimants are subject to the Home Office’s mandatory security checks to establish and verify their identity, and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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