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Asylum: Applications

Asked by Euan StainbankLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 16 July 2025UIN 65979

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to improve asylum claim processing times.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office continues to invest in a programme of transformation and business improvement, including innovative methods to speed up asylum decision making and improve the quality and consistency of our work.

The latest quarter saw the second highest three-month period for people receiving initial decisions since comparable records began in 2002, and more than double (+116%) those in the three months before the election (April to June 2024).

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