Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Liverpool Walton, reference MPAM/0481709/22, what the technical issue is that delayed his constituent's case; and whether this technical issue has affected any other applications made to her Department.

The Home Office can confirm the technical issue surrounding this case was caused by a system error that has since been resolved

We can confirm no other cases we have encountered have met the same issues as this case.

As part of transforming the asylum system, we continue to make several improvements with our transformation colleagues to develop a process which will rely on a single biometric capture for most applicants at the beginning of their asylum journey. Changes such as this will limit similar scenarios moving forward.