Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of how many more staff her Department will need to review refugee status for every refugee, every two and a half years, for 20 years.

Only those who remain on core protection will have their protection needs regularly reviewed, not every refugee. Such reviews will also be efficient and targeted; we will reassess where country conditions or personal circumstances have changed significantly.

We will also build on the efficiencies that have already seen record levels of initial decisions being made, including use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which are already assisting asylum decision makers to make fast and effective decisions.

We will continue to monitor staffing levels and will deploy our workforce flexibly subject to business needs as we have done in the past.