Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total full-time equivalent headcount of civil servants employed in (a) UK Visas and Immigration, (b) Asylum Casework, and (c) Immigration Enforcement was in each financial year from 2015-16 to 2025–26.

The Home Office has published the average number of full-time equivalent staff employed in UK Visas and Immigration, and Immigration Enforcement in each financial year from 2015-16 to 2025–26 in its Annual Report and Accounts, available at: Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK

The Home Office publishes information on asylum caseworking staff in the Migration Transparency Data, under Immigration and protection data: April to June 2026.

Table ASY_05(M) contains a monthly breakdown of full-time equivalent (FTE) asylum caseworker data from January 2020 onwards.

Table ASY_04 contains asylum staffing and productivity data for each financial year from 2011/12 onwards.

At the end of June 2026, there were 1,935 FTE asylum caseworkers in the Home Office.

These figures relate to staff responsible for interviewing and deciding asylum claims and do not represent the total Asylum Casework workforce.