Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2022 to Question 6782, how many and what proportion of the personnel working on asylum applications have completed their training in full as of 8 July 2022; and how many additional decision makers were being actively recruited as of 8 July 2022.

As of the 8 July 2022, the Home Office has 906 asylum decision makers, of whom 756 have completed their foundation training. Of those, 337 who have completed their mentoring can be considered fully trained and effective.

We are recruiting up to an additional 950 decision makers as of 8 July 2022.