Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department were working on asylum claims in each of the last 12 months.

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

Caseworking staff as referred to in the published immigration data, are defined as those responsible for delivering the interview and decision stages of asylum claims within asylum operations.

The Home Office is unable to provide the number of (FTE) caseworkers working on asylum decisions from January to March 2023 as this information has yet to be published.