Written Question·Home Office·UIN 39230

Asylum: Applications

Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Michael Wheeler

LabourWorsley and Eccles

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average waiting time for asylum decisions; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce the average time.

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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