Question follow-through · 105606
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of asylum seekers received initial decisions in quarter 4 of 2025 (October to December) compared to quarter 2 2024 (April to June).
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Housing · 21 Jan 2026
- Asylum: Temporary Accommodation · 26 Jan 2026
- Extradition · 30 Jan 2026
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- Visas: Armed Forces · 20 Feb 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
13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of asylum seekers received initial decisions in quarter 4 of 2025 (October to December) compared to quarter 2 2024 (April to June).
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions of asylum claims is published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’. The latest data relates to t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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3 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) large sites and (b) hotel sites for Asylum Seekers are there in the Falkirk Council area.
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20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an entry clearance manager can consider a non-English untranslated document in support of a visa.
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20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum applicant initial refusals were reversed in the period between July 2024 and July 2025.
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