Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of asylum cases are decided within (a) six months, (b) one year and (c) over one year.

The Home Office is unable to state what the average waiting time is to process an asylum claim or how many asylum claimants were awaiting their asylum interview because this information is not held in a reportable format, not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

However, the Home Office does publish data on the number asylum claims awaiting an initial decision by duration and the numbers processed within six months, for main claimant only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics and ASY_02 of the published Transparency Data:

List of tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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