Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to reintroduce a service standard for processing asylum claims, following the Department's response to the Independent Inspector's recommendation in November 2021.

As noted in the formal response, ‘an inspection of asylum casework’ (August 2020 to May 2021), published 18 November 2021, The Home Office have accepted the recommendation to re-introduce a published service standard.

There are changes being brought about by the New Plan for Immigration which impact on the way asylum claims are handled and these will be addressed as part of the process to develop a service standard.