Question follow-through · 28021
Asylum: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who claimed asylum in the UK in each of the last five years had previously held a Student visa, by sponsoring institution.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Overseas Students · 14 Sept 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
8 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who claimed asylum in the UK in each of the last five years had previously held a Student visa, by sponsoring institution.
11 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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11 Sept 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 by route prior to claim is published in table Asy_D01a of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’. Th...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Asylum: Overseas Students
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2026 to Question 28021, for what reason a breakdown of asylum claimants who previously held a study visa by sponsoring institution is not currently published.