Question follow-through · 121303
Asylum: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been resettled in Northern Ireland this year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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
17 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been resettled in Northern Ireland this year.
19 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
Northern Ireland is not a dispersal area and asylum seekers are therefore not routed between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Only those claiming asylum in Northern Ireland are accommodated there. Northern Ireland’s asylum population is, however, propo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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