Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many asylum decision-makers are currently working in her Department and (b) how this number compares to the number of asylum decision-makers who were working in her Department in each calendar year since 2010.

The Home Office currently employs c.1074 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.

The Home Office can provide the number of asylum decision makers from year ending 2012 up to year ending 2022. The data shows that we currently have the highest number of asylum decision makers since year ending 2012.

This data can be found in ASY_04 of the published transparency data:

Immigration Enforcement data: Q2 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).