Home Office written question – answered at on 6 February 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to ensure the (a) adequacy and (b) consistency of guidance provided in non-straightforward asylum cases.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 6.3 of The Home Office response to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s report: An Inspection of the Home Office’s Asylum Intake & Casework April – August 2017, whether her department has identified new customer service standards for non-straightforward asylum cases; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has on meeting the target to clear 10,000 asylum decision cases by March 2018.
The decision to designate a case as ‘non straight forward’ must be discussed and agreed by an officer at least the grade of a Senior Executive Officer to ensure it is applied appropriately. In addition the guidance on these cases has recently been reviewed and redistributed across asylum teams to ensure it is applied consistently and that it does not discriminate against any individual groups.
Asylum Intake and Casework Senior Management have been in consultation with staff and partners on the new service standards and it is intended that these will be introduced later this year
Information regarding Asylum data is published as part of the Government’s Transparency agenda the latest release of which can be found at can be found at tab as 01q https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017/list-of-tables#asylum. This shows that in from April to September there were 9,883 asylum decisions made.
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