Written question asked by Neil O'Brien (Conservative) on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 13 April 2026 (named day). It was answered by Alex Norris (Labour) on Monday, 13 April 2026 on behalf of the Home Office.

Asylum

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum-related returns there were in 2025 for people from (a) Bangladesh, (b) Afghanistan, (c) Iran and (d) Sri Lanka.

Answer

As you are aware, the Home Office publishes statistics on the number of returns from the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The latest data on returns from the UK, by nationality and asylum and non-asylum is published in table Ret_04 of the ‘Returns summary tables’. The latest data goes up to the end of December 2025.

Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and availability of data. These reviews allow us to balance the production of our regular statistics whilst developing new statistics for future release.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 123286
Session: 2024-26
Subjects: Asylum Statistics
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Asylum

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