Question follow-through · 92333
Asylum: Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on the number of immigrants granted asylum or indefinite leave to remain that have a criminal record either in the UK or abroad.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 25 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
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on the number of immigrants granted asylum or indefinite leave to remain that have a criminal record either in the UK or abroad.
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2025
Answer published
The requested information is not in a reportable format and can only be collated at disproportionate cost.As explained in this note published in April 2025, systems for collecting and compiling data related to foreign national offenders in the immigration...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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