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.
About this written question
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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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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Offenders · 11 Nov 2025
- Asylum: Vetting · 11 Nov 2025
- Asylum: Vetting · 11 Nov 2025
- Asylum: Applications · 11 Nov 2025
- Asylum: Vetting · 11 Nov 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
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.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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