Question follow-through · 60833
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who have previously reached a another safe country before arriving in the UK have had their applications (a) approved and (b) rejected in each year since 2015.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Deportation · 2 Jan 2026
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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
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who have previously reached a another safe country before arriving in the UK have had their applications (a) approved and (b) rejected in each year since 2015.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Available data on third country refusals, where the claimant is believed to have reached a safe third country prior to claiming in the UK, is published in t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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