Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the attrition rate for asylum caseworkers was in January (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.

The latest data on the attrition rate of decision makers are not routinely published but have been released to the Home Affairs Select Committee. The response can be found here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/31774/documents/178754/default/.

To reduce attrition rates and help maintain our decision-making experience we have implemented a recruitment and retention allowance. We have already doubled our decision makers over the last 2 years, and we are continuing to recruit more. This will take our expected number of decision makers to 1,800 by summer and 2,500 by September 2023.