Question follow-through · 901406
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle the asylum case backlog.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Refugees: Housing · 29 Aug 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle the asylum case backlog.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
Mr Speaker, this government inherited an asylum system in crisis, with decision-making on cases at its lowest level for years, £8 million per day being spent on asylum hotels, and a £6 billion in-year overspend on asylum and illegal migration costs.We hav...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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