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Asylum: Applications

Question for Home Office

UIN 88034, tabled on 15 November 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department work on processing asylum cases.

Answered on

18 November 2022

The Home Office currently employs circa c. 1176 asylum decision makers. There are recruitment strategies in place, with the aim of increasing staffing and reducing the number of cases awaiting a decision and increasing outputs.

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