Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individual asylum claims her Department has (a) processed and (b) approved in each month of the last five years.

The Home Office are unable to report how many individual asylum claims have been processed and approved in each month of the last five years as this information is not recorded and held in a reportable format, however we do publish data on the percentage of asylum applications processed within 6 months of the date of claim and can be found at Asy_01 of the Asylum Transparency Data January 2022:

Immigration and protection data: Q3 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Home Office also publish data on asylum initial decisions outcomes which can be found at Asy_D02 of the Immigration Statistics September 2021:

Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk):