Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was to carry out substantive asylum interviews following a claim for asylum in each of the last 12 months.
The data required to answer the question is not recorded in a way that can be reported on accurately.
The Home Office publishes figures on the outcome of asylum claims made within 6 months as part of its transparency agenda.
The latest data can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-february-2017