Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum claims were processed in (1) 1993, (2) 2003, (3) 2013 and (4) 2022.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on initial decisions made on asylum applications can be found in table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets. The latest data available is from 2001 up the year ending December 2022. Data for the year ending March 2023 will be published on 25 May 2023.

The number of full time equivalent (FTE) asylum caseworkers employed in each financial year from 2010/11 – 2021/22 is located in the ASY_04 tab of the published Migration transparency data, found online: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Caseworking staff as referred to in the published immigration data, are defined as those responsible for delivering the interview and decision stages of asylum claims within asylum operations.

The number of (FTE) caseworkers working on asylum decisions from 1993 and 2003 is not published.