Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are waiting for a decision on their asylum application as at 20 April 2020.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications awaiting a decision in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of people who are awaiting a decision on their asylum application are published in the asylum applications awaiting a decision data table in Asy_D03 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets.

The latest data is as at December 31^st 2019 and an update, covering data up to the end of March 2020, is due to be released on 21^st May 2020 as part of the Immigration Statistics Quarterly release.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.