Question follow-through · 28439
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to HMT, Treasury Minutes, CP1668, August 2026, para 7.2 (page 9), if she will list each of the significant challenges that have prevented the Government from updating official estimates
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to HMT, Treasury Minutes, CP1668, August 2026, para 7.2 (page 9), if she will list each of the significant challenges that have prevented the Government from updating official estimates
11 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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17 Sept 2026
Answer published
Producing official estimates of the number of failed asylum seekers is dependent on completion of work to re-establish the assured statistical datasets required after the transition of asylum caseworking to the new Atlas system.
Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.
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