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Asylum: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication entitled How many people claim asylum in the UK?, published on 21 August 2025, what assessment has she made of the potential implications for her policie

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
25 Nov 2025
Answer
1 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication entitled How many people claim asylum in the UK?, published on 21 August 2025, what assessment has she made of the potential implications for her policie

  2. 25 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    This government has already taken action to stem the surge in asylum claims from visa holders, including record numbers of credibility interviews and mandating a genuine study requirement for short term student routes. The number of student visa holders c...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Asylum: Housing

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which elements of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme are a) sustainable and b) scalable.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Housing

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the Asylum Support Payments contract as part of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Finance

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what payments to asylum seekers are delivered via the Asylum Support Payments contract.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Housing

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took following the approval of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme Delivery Model Assessment final report by the programme board on 30 June 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police National Database

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has she made in implementing the Police National Database programme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Law Enforcement Data Service

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Law Enforcement Data Service programme products are.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Electronic Travel Authorisations and Visas: Asylum

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the number and proportion of asylum seekers who previously entered the UK on a) a visa or b) other leave with relevant

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas: Asylum

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the number and proportion of people claiming asylum who entered the UK on a work visa.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Bangladesh

21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the number and proportion of Bangladeshi asylum seekers who arrived in the UK on a) visas or b) other leave in the year t

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Migrants

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the size of the total absconder pool in the most recent period for which reporting is available.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neighbourhood Policing: Recruitment

2 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Prime Minister’s comment that You will see 3,000 neighbourhood police officers on your streets by March in his speech on 1st December 2025, what recent progress has she made in d

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Reform

10 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the police reform white paper.