Andrew Smith – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Smith on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average time taken is to process asylum applications from the point of initial screening interview to substantive asylum interview.

James Brokenshire

The current average time to process an asylum claim is 80 days, from the date of the screening interview to the date the substantive asylum interview has been concluded. This is down from a peak of 142 days in 2008.