Question follow-through · 31526
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the level of the backlog in Home Office asylum cases in (a) England, (b) North West region and (c) Runcorn and Helsby constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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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
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the level of the backlog in Home Office asylum cases in (a) England, (b) North West region and (c) Runcorn and Helsby constituency.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Feb 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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