Question follow-through · 17276

Asylum: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Palestinians studying at UK universities have subsequently submitted an asylum application.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
8 Jul 2026
Target answer date
13 Jul 2026
Answer
15 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Palestinians studying at UK universities have subsequently submitted an asylum application.

  2. 13 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum claims where the latest leave held prior to claim was a study visa, broken down by nationality, is published in table Asy_D01a ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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