Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2023 to Question 190103 on Asylum: Interviews, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of the potential impact of the Streamlined Asylum Process separate from increases in the number of decision-makers.

The Prime Minister pledged to clear the backlog of the 92,601 initial asylum decisions relating to claims made before 28 June 2022 (“legacy claims”) by the end of 2023. We are making good progress to deliver this commitment. Numbers published show the initial decision legacy backlog is down by over 17,000 since 13 December 2022. We are on track to clear the legacy backlog by the end of the year.