| Heading: |
Asylum: Applications |
| Question ID: |
1785851 |
| UIN: |
39230 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5242 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Michael Wheeler
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| Asking Member handle: |
MWheelerMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@MWheelerMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average waiting time for asylum decisions; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce the average time. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
491 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Angela Eagle
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| Answering Member handle: |
angelaeagle
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@angelaeagle
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
The average time taken to process a substantive decision is not currently available from published data, and could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.However, the Home Office does publish dat... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |