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What is the religion of people claiming asylum?
Unknown We have not yet established what is published. The entry is a question, not an answer.
Why
No Home Office asylum table includes religion; the datasets are by nationality, age, sex, applicant type and outcome. ONS states it does not collect ethnicity or religion in its immigration statistics. Whether the Home Office records religion in a reportable field (as distinct from a religion-based ground of claim on the case file) is not stated in any publication read, so the entry records the question rather than an answer.
What is known
- Asylum claims by nationality asylum_claims_by_nationality
What is not known
- Religion of claimants at any stage
- A published statement of whether the field is recorded
Who holds the data
- Home Office
Would a Freedom of Information request help?
Possibly. A request can establish whether religion is held in a reportable field; the likely answer is "not held in a reportable form" but that has not been confirmed.
Privacy and disclosure restrictions
Religion is special-category personal data; any release would be at national level with suppression.
Official sources checked
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/crimeandimmigrationbyethnicityandreligion
- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets
Last reviewed 2026-09-02. Availability changes; if a publication now answers this question, challenge the classification below.