Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many interviews have been omitted from the asylum application process since June 2022.

The Home Office is unable to state how many asylum interviews have been omitted from the asylum process since June 2022 as this information is not held in a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The Home Office currently employs c.895 asylum decision-makers. There are recruitment strategies in place, with the aim of increasing staffing and reducing the number of cases awaiting a decision and increasing outputs.