Question follow-through · 39230
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average waiting time for asylum decisions; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce the average time.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 14 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
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average waiting time for asylum decisions; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce the average time.
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The average time taken to process a substantive decision is not currently available from published data, and could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.However, the Home Office does publish dat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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