Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent asylum casework staff there were in her Department as of 1 March 2023.

The number of asylum casework staff who have been paid a retention allowance in each month since December 2022 is not information which is held in a reportable format, or routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The number of FTE asylum caseworkers employed per month until December 2022 is in the ASY_05(M) tab of the published immigration statistics is located here: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Information regarding the number of full-time equivalent asylum caseworkers from January to March 2023 has yet to be published, therefore we are currently unable to provide the information for this quarter.