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<p>The Home Office is unable to state what proportion, offer timescales currently
or provide average timescales to make an decisions on asylum application in 2019 and
2021 as this information is not published.</p><p>However, the Home Office does publish
data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for
main applicants only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration
Statistics:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2021/list-of-tables"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2021/list-of-tables</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>The Home Office are pursuing a programme of transformation and business improvement
initiatives that will speed up decision making, reduce the time people spend in the
system and reduce the numbers who are awaiting an interview or decision. This includes
almost doubling decision makers number to c.1,000 by March 2022 and providing improved
training and career progression opportunities to aid retention of staff. We are continuing
to develop existing and new technology to help build on recent improvements such as
digital interviewing and move away from a paper-based system.</p><p> </p><p>We have
three key areas of focus in the short to medium term to reduce the number of outstanding
asylum cases by improving efficiency and productivity, reducing the number of outstanding
claims and building high performing teams. We are streamlining and digitalising the
case working process to enable more effective workflow, appointment booking and decision-making.</p>
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