Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of the asylum procedure in the UK over (1) the last 12 months, and (2) the last three years.

Information regarding the average duration of the asylum procedure is not recorded and held in a reportable format. However the information relating to the percentage of initial asylum decisions made within the published service standard can be found on table Asy_10 of the Asylum Transparency data published on 30^th November 2017 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-november-2017).

An extract of the table can be found below;

Information relating to the average time taken to make an initial decision is not recorded in a reportable format. However, information relating to the amount of initial decisions made in (1) the last 12 months, and (2) last three years for (a) Syrian nationals, (b) Afghan nationals, and (c) Iraqi nationals can be found in the Asylum data tables immigration statistics July to September 2017 volume 2 on table as_06; https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017-data-tables

An extract is contained in the table below;

*It should be noted that the Total initial decisions made may not correlate to the year in which the claim was made.