Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on reducing the backlog of asylum applications.

We are streamlining and modernising the end-to-end asylum casework process, extending the asylum questionnaire to Iranians and Iraqi nationals, and increasing the number of asylum decision makers by over 48% since July 2022.

The Home Office has already reduced the legacy asylum backlog by over 13,800 cases and we are on track to clear the backlog by the end of 2023.