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<p>The table below shows, for each year from 2009-10, the time taken to make an initial
decision, including those made within 12 months of claiming asylum.</p><p>In the year
ending 31 March 2015, UKVI completed a sigmificant exercise in clearing all straightforward
asylum cases with a claim date preceding 1 April 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial
Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Number of Decisions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No
of Cases with a decision Over a Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No of Cases with
a decision Under a Year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>24,510</p></td><td><p>3,048</p></td><td><p>21,462</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>19,818</p></td><td><p>4,010</p></td><td><p>15,808</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>16,970</p></td><td><p>1,479</p></td><td><p>15,491</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>17,561</p></td><td><p>1,208</p></td><td><p>16,353</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>15,141</p></td><td><p>2,305</p></td><td><p>12,836</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>25,992</p></td><td><p>8,281</p></td><td><p>17,711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16
(Up to the 30 Sep 2015)</p></td><td><p>13,073</p></td><td><p>1,217</p></td><td><p>11,856</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p><p>The
Home Office holds reportable information on the number of asylum seekers who have
not received a decision within twelve months. Permission to work requests are also
recorded on the immigration casework database but this information is not readily
reportable without interrogating thousands of individual cases. Therefore, the information
is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p>
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