Written Question·Home Office·UIN 53647

Asylum

Tabled: 20 May 2025

Answered: 5 June 2025

Question

Claire Hanna

Social Democratic & Labour Party — Belfast South and Mid Down

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time is for any asylum seeker to receive a decision from the date they claimed asylum.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The average time taken to process a substantive decision is not currently available from published data and could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost. However, the Home Office does publish dat...

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