Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average annual full-time equivalent headcount of asylum processing caseworkers was in each year between 2016 and 2024.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’ and in the ‘Migration transparency data’.

Data on asylum claims awaiting an initial decision at the end of each quarter is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’.

Data on the number of asylum caseworking staff per month from 2020 onwards is published in table ASY_05(M) of the ‘Immigration and Protection data’.