Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January to Question 24556 on Asylum: Interviews, what proportion of asylum interviews were conducted remotely in each of the last five years.

Most asylum interviews are now conducted remotely using video conference facilities outside of Home Office locations.

The number of substantive asylum interviews is published online in tab ASY_05(M) in the Immigration and protection data: Q3 2024 - GOV.UK however this does not provide a breakdown of the number of asylum interviews conducted remotely. This information could only be obtained for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

Further information regarding asylum interviews is available on gov.uk at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/conducting-the-asylum-interview-process.