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<p>The Home Office are unable to state how many asylum applications were decided within
the 26-week period in 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2021 to date but can state the number of
applications decided within the 24-week period (6months) from Q2 2014 to Q2 2020.</p><p>This
information can be found at Asy_01 of the published Migration Transparency data:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-protection-data-february-2021"
target="_blank">Immigration & Protection data: February 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The
number of staff who were allocated to processing asylum claims in 2021 is not recorded
and held in a reportable format. To obtain this information would require detailed
reporting against multiple cost centres and could only be obtained at disproportionate
costs.</p><p>However, the Home Office can provide the number of asylum case working
staff from 2014 to 2020. This data can be found in ASY_04 of the published Transparency
data:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-protection-data-february-2021"
target="_blank">Immigration & Protection data: February 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p>
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