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Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the administrative review backlog.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
11 Apr 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the administrative review backlog.

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Caseworking resource for administrative reviews has doubled since 2021/22, which was the first of consecutive years of significantly increased demand. 2023/24 saw a 50% increase in AR applications compared to the previous year, and intake through 2024/25 ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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