A question on #Asylum tabled by Ben Obese-Jecty on 30-05-2025 has been answered by Dame Angela Eagle.

Heading: Asylum
Question ID: 1806812
UIN: 55245
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-05-30
Asking Member ID: 5089
Asking Member display name: Ben Obese-Jecty
Asking Member handle: BenObeseJecty
Asking Member Twitter reference: @BenObeseJecty
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the size of the asylum backlog was on (a) 5 July 2024 and (b) 1 May 2025.
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Date answered: 2025-06-09
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 491
Answering Member display name: Dame Angela Eagle
Answering Member handle: angelaeagle
Answering Member Twitter reference: @angelaeagle
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Answer text: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum claims awaiting an initial decision is published in table Asy_D03 of the Asylum claims awaiting a decision detailed dataset. Th...
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Answering body ID: 1
Answering body name: Home Office
Tweeted: true