Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled We’re recruiting Asylum Decision Makers across the UK, published on 28 April 2025, how many asylum decisionmakers have been hired since 28 April.

The Home Office is maintaining sufficient resource in place to clear the Asylum backlog.

The number of full time equivalent (FTE) asylum caseworkers employed per month until June 2025 is published in the ASY_05(M) tab of the published migration transparency statistics, located here: Immigration and protection data: Q2 2025 (Migration transparency data - GOV.UK)

At the end of June 2025 there were 2,057 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Asylum Caseworking Staff.