Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-01-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how many asylum applications did it take UK Visas and Immigration longer than 12 months to make an initial decision; how many such applicants submitted a request to be allowed to work in the UK; how many of those requests to work were rejected; and how long, on average, did it take for those accepted to be given documents confirming their right to work in each year since 2009-10.
James Brokenshire
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.
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.
|
Financial Year |
Total Number of Decisions |
No of Cases with a decision Over a Year |
No of Cases with a decision Under a Year |
|
2009/10 |
24,510 |
3,048 |
21,462 |
|
2010/11 |
19,818 |
4,010 |
15,808 |
|
2011/12 |
16,970 |
1,479 |
15,491 |
|
2012/13 |
17,561 |
1,208 |
16,353 |
|
2013/14 |
15,141 |
2,305 |
12,836 |
|
2014/15 |
25,992 |
8,281 |
17,711 |
|
2015/16 (Up to the 30 Sep 2015) |
13,073 |
1,217 |
11,856 |
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.
