Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding asylum claims there are.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum claims awaiting an initial decision is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to December 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.