Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of all new and outstanding asylum applications were completed in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c)2017.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of asylum applications, initial decisions and pending for main applicants, by nationality in Asylum Tables, Volume 1 Table as_01_q of the Immigration Statistics release. The latest figures are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables