Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of how many people have been waiting more than six months for a decision on their asylum claim.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications awaiting an initial decision are published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 30 June 2022. Data as at 30 September 2022 is set to be published on 24 November 2022.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.