{"value":{"id":1908127,"askingMemberId":5322,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2026-05-20T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2026-06-01T00:00:00","uin":"3570","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Afghanistan claimed asylum in the UK from 2015 to 2020; how many of those people were women and girls; and how many of those people were granted asylum.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4641,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2026-06-03T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’</a>. The number of asylum claims and grants, broken down by nationality, age, and sex, is published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#asylum\" target=\"_blank\">Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’</a>.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Asylum: Afghanistan","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1908127","method":"GET"}]}