Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of asylum caseworkers employed by her Department at the end of the (a) second, (b) third and (c) final quarter of 2023.

The number of asylum caseworkers employed by the Home Office for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2021/22 can be found in the ASY_04 tab of the published immigration statistics located here: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Information for the financial year ending March 2023 is not yet released.