Data published by the Home Office reveals that an estimated 6% of all asylum claims received between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2017 were linked to sexual orientation, with the largest number of people coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. The nationalities with the highest proportion of total claims based on sexual orientation were Uganda, Cameroon and Tanzania. Paul Dillane, executive director of the Kaleidoscope Trust said:
“Significantly, the statistics published are not disaggregated, meaning the specific experiences of lesbian and bisexual women are rendered invisible.”