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Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time is for any asylum seeker to receive a decision from the date they claimed asylum.

answeredClaire HannaHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
20 May 2025
Target answer date
22 May 2025
Answer
5 Jun 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time is for any asylum seeker to receive a decision from the date they claimed asylum.

  2. 22 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Jun 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...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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