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<p>Asylum seekers are not going to be denied entry to the UK from red-list countries
and their asylum claims will be processed as usual.</p><p> </p><p>We have a legal
obligation to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with accommodation,
and as such the Home Office will continue to provide accommodation in which asylum
seekers can self-isolate to stop to spread of Covid.</p><p>The Home Office publishes
data on asylum applications in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494157222%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=wAzzL9aHv7qbqRMFYSv1SuCLd6iBTPgRsfJvM%2BKm27k%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">Immigration Statistics quarterly release</a>. Data on the number of
asylum applications in each quarter, broken down by nationality is published in table
Asy_D01 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=cuQOsmZ1wIgb8jopWeydsUlrm3IgnIPg1Zik1j4gFCQ%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">asylum detailed datasets</a>. The latest data are to the end of September
2020, with data to the end of December 2020 due to be published on 25<sup>th</sup>
February 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the
data in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F937206%2Fasylum-summary-sep-2020-tables.xlsx&data=04%7C01%7CJames.Snowdon%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2f20e11e504d43219fc308d8cf590331%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637487328494167217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=htJughjYKCP3EFluAxjUEFYn2Dqk5W1VowOXTSwZeD0%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">asylum and resettlement summary tables</a>. The ‘contents’ sheet contains
an overview of all available data on asylum.</p><p> </p><p>The published data does
not show the country from which the asylum seeker left when they began their journey
(or through which country or countries the asylum seeker subsequently travelled) in
order to reach the UK, or when they arrived in the UK. Some asylum seekers may have
been in the UK (or another country) for some time before claiming asylum. An individual
with a particular nationality may not have actually been in that country for a significant
length of time prior to claiming asylum. It is therefore not possible to say from
the available data whether or not the individual has recently travelled from a ‘red
list’ country.</p>
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