§ Lord Alton of Liverpoolasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will make it a priority to speed up the processing of asylum claims of young asylum seekers over and above those of other applicants. [HL2367]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Bassam of Brighton)The need to speed up the processing of asylum claims of young people has already been recognised and a dedicated team was established at the end of March this year to deal with these applications. The Integrated Casework Directorate is looking at ways of speeding up the decision-making process for these cases still further and to speed up asylum decision-making as a whole.