Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for asylum applications made by people from Hong Kong from the initial claim to the outcome in the latest period for which data is available.

This data for average processing times is not held in a reportable format, not routinely published, and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as it requires a manual search through individual records.

The Home Office does publish data on the number of asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics:

List of tables - GOV.UK

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1118222/asylum-summary-sep-2022-tables.ods

Further detailed asylum and resettlement data sets, filtered by nationality can be found:

List of tables - GOV.UK

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets