Question follow-through · 15696
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the backlog of asylum claims.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jul 2026 · 10 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
3 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the backlog of asylum claims.
7 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum claims awaiting an initial decision is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum claims awaiting an initial decision datasets’....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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