Written Questions

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 1 February to Question 11694 and Answer of 26 June 2020 to Question 28755, what (a) internal management information processes or (b) publication standards has changed within the last two years that prevent an answer to Question111694.


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Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 21st February 2022

Pursuant to answer of 1 February to Question 11694 and answer of 26 June 2020 to Question 28755, there have not been any changes to internal management information processes or publication standard that have changed within the last two years.

The Home Office remains committed to routinely publishing information which shows the number of cases in the entire asylum system outstanding, however some data we are unable to provide as it is not easily aggregated, can only be obtained at disproportionate costs or not held in a reportable format.

However, data on case age can be found in ASY_03 of the published Transparency data:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data

Whilst there are a number of older outstanding cases in the system, these are more complex cases which generally have barriers that prevents an initial asylum decision being made. These barriers are often varied and require time to clear, but our teams are actively working to clear and progress these to a decision.

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