Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce (1) the time taken to make decisions on asylum applications, and (2) the backlog of older cases.

To further accelerate decision making we will drive productivity improvements by simplifying and modernising our system. This includes measures like shortening interviews, removing unnecessary interviews, making guidance simpler and more accessible, dealing with cases more swiftly where they can be certified as manifestly unfounded and recruiting extra decision makers.