Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many questionnaires have been (a) sent by and (b) returned to her Department in relation to asylum claims within the scope of the new guidance on streamlined asylum processing since the publication of that guidance on 23 February 2023.

We need to make sure asylum seekers do not spend months or years, living in the UK at vast expense to the taxpayer, waiting for a decision. As part of these efforts to speed up the asylum process for high-grant nationalities, 12,000 asylum seekers who made legacy asylum claims, those made before 28 June 2022, are being asked to provide all necessary information in a new Home Office questionnaire to help determine their case.

The exact number of asylum questionnaires which have been sent and returned under this streamlined process is not information currently held in a reportable format.