Question follow-through · 7225
Home Office: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants comprise the asylum group and what estimate she has made of their total annual salary cost.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 18 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
5 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants comprise the asylum group and what estimate she has made of their total annual salary cost.
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2026
Answer published
Workforce numbers within Asylum Group are not fixed and fluctuate in line with operational demand, including the use of contingent labour. As of 31st May 2026, Asylum Group total headcount was 10,942.Asylum Group budget information will be published in fu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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