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<p>Individual applications for asylum are referred to ministers when they are identified
as potentially sensitive or high-profile. Such cases may be referred to Ministers
by the relevant case working team if they feel it appropriate or, dependant on the
circumstances of the case, when they are raised through MPs representation, or in
Parliament; or when specific Ministerial authorisation is required.</p><p>The Home
Office is unable to state what proportion of decisions on asylum applications are
referred to Minister’s private offices, before and/or after those decisions are communicated
to the applicant for asylum or how many such decisions have been notified during the
first five months of 2020, as this does not form part of any routinely published data
and is not held in a reportable format.</p>
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