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date	04/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Religion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department collects on the religious affiliations of asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	192427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <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 Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on asylum applications can be found in table Asy_D01 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish asylum applicants by religion. Whilst we hold information regarding the religion of asylum claimants, this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as it would require a manual trawl of case records to retrieve.</p><p>A claimant’s religion will be established during the asylum registration process. Depending on the nature of the claim, further information regarding a claimant’s religion may be requested during a substantive asylum interview.</p><p>For further information, please see: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1134648%2FScreening_and_routing.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJohanna.Straatman%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C279d4f938a3644579e3808db7d533eca%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638241568712951386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xEnv%2FMwp3ZjW9XeBt%2B95J8%2FqTjwfr2vGBe%2FOtHZh2Qw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Screening and routing.docx (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> and <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1083449%2FAsylum_interview.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJohanna.Straatman%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C279d4f938a3644579e3808db7d533eca%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638241568712951386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=K%2Bt1Dh7FeqzhF5TOYCRPP9RAyMkJX9gZ1kVKjgq%2FLcU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum interview.docx (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 192428 question first answered 11/07/2023 16:23:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

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registered interest
date	17/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for how many days the (a) Colne to Blackpool South and (b) Skipton to Leeds lines were closed in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	192427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text This is not information that is held by the Department for Transport. This is a matter for Network Rail, who own and operate Britain's rail network. answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson