Asylum: Appeals
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding she has allocated to tackle the asylum case backlog.
Answered by Alex Norris
The Home Office does not have a separately identifiable budget for tackling the asylum case backlog. All costs involved are scored against Home Office business-as-usual budgets that cover all asylum cases regardless of age.
You may find Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK useful, more specifically, the latest 2025 report and the accompanying core data table.
You can also see Migration transparency data - GOV.UK, table ASY_04 of Immigration and Protection data which contains information on the cost of asylum.
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