Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims were undecided (a) at the end of 2019 and (b) in the latest period for which figures are available.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum applications awaiting an initial decision or further review are published in table Asy_D03 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 30 June 2022. Data as at 30 September 2022 is set to be published on the 24 November 2022.

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