Question follow-through · 24556
Asylum: Interviews
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum casework interviews are conducted remotely.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- British Nationality · 17 Jan 2025
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- Immigration · 20 Jan 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
16 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum casework interviews are conducted remotely.
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
Most asylum interviews are now conducted remotely using video conference facilities outside of Home Office locations.This has enabled the Home Office to increase the availability of interview locations, interpreters and decision makers, and often reduce t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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