Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle delays in registering an asylum claim.
1) We are increasing the size of the National Asylum Intake Unit in response to the exceptional challenges of large-scale clandestine arrivals. This additional resource will enable us to reduce the time asylum seekers wait between registering their asylum claim and conducting the screening interview.
2) Since 1 January 2020, the mean average number of days between asylum application raised date and asylum screening is 36.