Question follow-through · 119885
Asylum: Chevening Scholarships Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Chevening Scholars have subsequently claimed asylum in the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 41 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 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Chevening Scholars have subsequently claimed asylum in the UK.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of people claiming asylum where the latest leave held prior to claim was a study visa is published in table Asy_D01a of the ‘Asylum claim...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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