Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time is from submitting an asylum application for a person to be called for their substantive interview.

The Home Office does not currently report on the average time that is taken between the date of an asylum claim to the date of a substantive asylum interview taking place or the date of a decision outcome as this information is not published or held in a reportable format.

However, the Home Office does publish data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics:

List of tables - GOV.UK (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2022/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement).