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Asylum: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January to Question 24556 on Asylum: Interviews, what proportion of asylum interviews were conducted remotely in each of the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
28 Jan 2025
Answer
3 Feb 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January to Question 24556 on Asylum: Interviews, what proportion of asylum interviews were conducted remotely in each of the last five years.

  2. 28 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Most asylum interviews are now conducted remotely using video conference facilities outside of Home Office locations.The number of substantive asylum interviews is published online in tab ASY_05(M) in the Immigration and protection data: Q3 2024 - GOV.UK ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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