Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 22 August 2022 to Question 39956 and of 28 September 2022 to Question 51908 on Asylum: Applications, what the evidential basis is for her Departments policy on delivering efficiencies in the processing for asylum applications under the New Plan for Immigration in the absence of an estimate of these costs in each financial year.

The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights. Our plans have three central objectives:

1. To increase the fairness and efficacy of our system, so that we can better protect and support those in genuine need of asylum;
2. To deter illegal entry into the UK, thereby breaking the business model of criminal trafficking networks and protecting the lives of those they endanger;
3. To remove more easily from the UK those with no right to be here.