Written Question·Home Office·UIN 65979
Asylum: Applications
Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 16 July 2025
Question
Euan Stainbank
Labour — Falkirk
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to improve asylum claim processing times.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThe Home Office continues to invest in a programme of transformation and business improvement, including innovative methods to speed up asylum decision making and improve the quality and consistency of our work.
The latest quarter saw the second highest three-month period for people receiving initial decisions since comparable records began in 2002, and more than double (+116%) those in the three months before the election (April to June 2024).