Question follow-through · 90043
Asylum: Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have been approved for people with a criminal record in the UK prior to the commencement of their asylum application.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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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
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have been approved for people with a criminal record in the UK prior to the commencement of their asylum application.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2025
Answer published
The requested data on asylum applications from foreign national offenders is not currently published by the Home Office.As explained in this note published in April 2025, systems for collecting and compiling data related to foreign national offenders in t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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