Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have remained open for over a year as at 1 December 2018.
Information regarding the number of asylum applications that breached the six month resolution target threshold in 2017/2018 is published as part of the Government’s Transparency agenda, the latest release of which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-february-2019
The Home Office does not publish data on the number of asylum applications that have remained open for over a year as at 1 December 2018.
However as at 31st December 2018, there were 12,213 asylum applications pending an initial decision for more than 6 months. This can be found at Immigration Statistics, table as_01.