Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent estimate they have made of the number of asylum applications pending initial decision.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum applications awaiting an initial decision are published in table Asy_04 of the asylum ‘summary tables’.

The published data show that, as at 30 September 2021, there were 67,547 asylum applications awaiting an initial decision.

The latest data are as at 30 September 2021. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’. The ‘contents’ sheet of the summary tables contains an overview of all available data on asylum. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.