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Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Afghanistan claimed asylum in the UK from 2021 to 2025; how many of those people were women and girls; and how many of those people were granted asylum.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
20 May 2026
Target answer date
1 Jun 2026
Answer
3 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Afghanistan claimed asylum in the UK from 2021 to 2025; how many of those people were women and girls; and how many of those people were granted asylum.

  2. 1 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The number of asylum claims and grants, broken down by nationality, age, and sex, is published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claims and initi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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