Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants delivered the training and mentoring programme for new Decision Makers; and whether those civil servants would otherwise have been processing asylum cases themselves as of 29 June.

The Home Office has rolling recruitment campaigns to ensure the number of civil servants delivering the training and mentoring programme for new decision makers are maintained at appropriate levels.

Those civil servants who deliver training and mentoring are separate to those processing asylum cases and would not be expected to process asylum cases themselves.