Home Office: Recruitment
(asked on 10th September 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are recruiting extra staff to help process increased numbers of asylum seekers in the UK.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 24th September 2021
In support of increasing the number of initial asylum decisions, the Home Office has recruitment strategies in place to increase staffing to more appropriate levels.
We are working to almost double the number of decision makers to c.1000 by March 2022.