Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 October 2016 to Question 46261, on asylum: EU law, how long she expects it will take her Department to prepare the information requested.

We will always fully consider cases passed to us under the Dublin Regulation, and have made significant progress in improving and speeding up the existing processes via Dublin especially since the beginning of the year.

Any request to unite family members under the Dublin Regulation is carefully considered. Where someone seeking asylum elsewhere in the EU can demonstrate they have close family members legally in the UK, we will take responsibility for that claim. At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation.

The latest release of published data on asylum can be found at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2016