Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the (a) accuracy and (b) speed of her Department's decision-making processes for asylum seekers.

The Home Office continues to invest in a programme of transformation and business improvement, including innovative methods to speed up asylum decision making and improve the quality and consistency of our work.

The latest quarter saw the second highest three-month period for people receiving initial decisions since comparable records began in 2002, and more than double (+116%) those in the three months before the election (April to June 2024).