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date	01/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to process the backlog of applications for asylum in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL3088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office are currently dealing with a sustained high level of new asylum claims, including from those who have recently arrived on small boats, which is creating additional pressures on the asylum system.</p><p>The Home Office have an asylum transformation programme which will help bring down the backlog in cases by increasing the number of decision makers processing cases, improving the use of digital technology, including remote interviews, to speed up the process and concentrating on deciding older claims, cases with acute vulnerability and those in receipt of the greatest level of support, including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 15/11/2022 16:07:26 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1538393

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications for asylum in the UK they are processing each month; and what assessment they have made of the time that will be required to clear the backlog.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL3089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office is unable to report how many applications for asylum are being processed each month as this information is not recorded and held in a reportable format. However, we do publish data on the percentage of asylum applications processed within 6 months of the date of claim and can be found at Immigration and protection data at gov.uk.</p><p>The Asylum Transformation programme aims to bring the asylum system back into balance and modernise it.</p><p>It is focused on increasing productivity in deciding asylum claims by streamlining, simplifying and digitising the system to speed up processes and increase efficiency and output.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 15/11/2022 14:20:36 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1538394

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications for asylum were processed in the last 12 months; and what were the determinations arrived at.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL3090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the Immigration Statistics Quartlerly Release, which can be found on gov.uk. Data on initial decisions on asylum applications are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’ which can be found on gov.uk and attached as Annex A. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending June 2022. Data for July 2022 to the end of September 2022 is set to be published on 24 November 2022.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’ section on gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 15/11/2022 16:11:03 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth attachment 1 file name Annex A.xlsx title Annex A
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey