Shabana Mahmood on asylum claims, 17 November 2025
The statement
The burden that has fallen on this country has been heavy: 400,000 have sought asylum here in the past four years.
Shabana Mahmood, 17 November 2025. Source
What the sources report
- Home Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2025 (as first published) reports people claiming asylum in the UK (year ending September 2025): 110051peoplesrc
- Home Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026 reports people claiming asylum in the UK (year ending September 2025, revised): 109662peoplesrc
- Home Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2024 reports people claiming asylum in the UK (2024): 108138peoplesrc
- Home Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026 reports people claiming asylum in the UK (year ending June 2026, latest): 85891peoplesrc
Notes
The Home Office first reported 110,051 people claiming asylum in the year ending September 2025; its latest release revises this to 109,662.
The Home Office reports 108,138 people claiming asylum in 2024 and 85,891 in the year ending June 2026.
The statement covers four years.
Each figure's own page, with every change: People claiming asylum in the UK (2024), People claiming asylum in the UK (year ending June 2026, latest), People claiming asylum in the UK (year ending September 2025), People claiming asylum in the UK (year ending September 2025, revised).
Receipts
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- Parliament recordStatement source: Shabana Mahmood
- Government publicationHome Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2025 (as first published): People claiming asylum in the UK (year ending September 2025)
- Government publicationHome Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026: People claiming asylum in the UK (year ending September 2025, revised)
- Government publicationHome Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2024: People claiming asylum in the UK (2024)
- Government publicationHome Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026: People claiming asylum in the UK (year ending June 2026, latest)
- Government publicationHome Office: How many people claim asylum in the UK (year ending September 2025)
- Government publicationHome Office: How many people claim asylum in the UK (year ending December 2024)
- Government publicationHome Office: How many people claim asylum in the UK (year ending June 2026)