Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April to Question 175523 on Asylum, how many asylum applications were awaiting processing in June 2010.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications awaiting initial decision can be found in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest data covers the period from June 2010 to December 2022.