Question follow-through · 86163

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest time was for an asylum application to reach a final resolution in the last ten years.

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
30 Oct 2025
Answer
5 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest time was for an asylum application to reach a final resolution in the last ten years.

  2. 30 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 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 ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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