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Asylum

Commons · Question 15696 · Tabled 3 Jul 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 13 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the backlog of asylum claims.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 13 Jul 2026

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum claims awaiting an initial decision is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum claims awaiting an initial decision datasets’....