Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were awaiting an initial decision on their asylum application on (a) 1 March, (b) 1 April, (c) 1 May and (d) 1 June 2023.

The Home Office publishes data on people awaiting an initial decision on their asylum application in the ‘Immigration system statistics quarterly release’. Data on the number of people awaiting an initial decision on their asylum applications is published in Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum and resettlement datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the 31^st March 2023.

Figures for asylum applications awaiting a decision as at 30 April and 28 May 2023 can be found in table IMB_02 of the ‘Statistics Relating to the Illegal Migration Bill’ release. The latest data relates to 28 May 2023. Please note that the figures in table IMB_02 have not been cleansed and thus may contain duplicates and the data represents cases awaiting an initial decision and not the total number of people awaiting an initial decision.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the Research and Statistics Calendar.