Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum decisions have been made each week since 1 April 2022.

The Home Office are unable to report how many asylum decisions have been made each week since 1 April 2022 as this is not published information.

However, the Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on outcomes of asylum applications at initial decision can be found in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate to the year ending March 2022. Data for April 2022 will be published on 25 August 2022. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar.

Asylum Operations currently have c.820 asylum decision makers employed in their department to process asylum cases. However, some are completing their foundation training programme and mentoring period. We anticipate a further increase in the number of decisions per week once their training is complete. Recruitment is continuing to increase the number of Asylum Decision Makers in post to 1,000.