Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average duration of the asylum procedure at first instance is in the UK.
Information regarding the average duration of the asylum procedure is not recorded and held in a reportable format.
However, the information relating to the percentage of initial asylum decisions made within the published service standard can be found on table Asy_10 of the Asylum Transparency data:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-november-2018