Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when asylum seeker interviews that have been put on hold in response to the covid-19 outbreak will restart.

Asylum Operations have secured a digital solution that can support remote interviewing and are working with delivery partners to enable the use of this technology. Asylum Ops remain committed to restarting substantive asylum interviews as soon as they can establish a process that allows the participants - applicants, representatives, interpreters and interviewers - to do so safely.