Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many straightforward asylum applications are completed within six months.

The Home Office has recently started publishing performance against the service standard to decide 98% of straight forward asylum claims within 6 months of the date of claim. The first publication was on 25 August 2017 as part of the government’s Transparency Agenda. The full data release can be found at the following address http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data . This data shows that of the 4,230 straight forward claims made in quarter 4 of 2016, 4,177 or 98.7% received a decision within 6 months.