Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers were awaiting decisions on their status in the first two quarters of 2018.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of asylum cases pending a decision at the end of each quarter in table as_01_q (asylum, volume 1) of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/709299/asylum1-mar-2018-tables.ods

The latest figures show the total number of asylum cases pending a decision at the end of March 2018 was 24,593. Of this total, the number pending an initial decision was 22,100.

Figures for the end of June 2018 are due to be published on the 23^rd August 2018.