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Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent civil servants are employed to work on the asylum backlog.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
21 Feb 2025
Target answer date
25 Feb 2025
Answer
3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent civil servants are employed to work on the asylum backlog.

  2. 25 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The requested staffing data is published online: Immigration and protection data: Q3 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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