Written Question·Home Office·UIN 109439

Asylum

Tabled: 28 January 2026
Answered: 6 February 2026

Question

Mr Paul Kohler

Liberal DemocratWimbledon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken to make an initial decision on an asylum claim was in each of the last five years.

Answer

Alex Norris
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the 'Immigration System Statistics' and the ‘Migration Transparency Data’ releases.Data on the number of asylum claims awaiting an initial decision by duration is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum claims...

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