Asylum: Applications
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest recorded duration is for an asylum application to remain in the further submissions process without conclusion.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.
The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850.”
I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.
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