Written questions

Asylum

Commons · Question 27671 · Tabled 7 Sep 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 15 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Chris Bloore

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average annual full-time equivalent headcount of asylum processing caseworkers was in each year between 2016 and 2024.

Answer

Answered by Anna Turley, 15 Sep 2026

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’ and in the ‘Migration transparency data’.Data on asylum claims awaiting an initial decision at the end of each quarter is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘...