Home Office ditches legacy asylum database, keeps the spreadsheets

The Home Office stopped using the 25-year-old Case Information Database in December and shifted asylum case management to Atlas. A Public Accounts Committee report found officials still rely on spreadsheets and disconnected systems, with no single reliable view of cases. Data sharing between Home Office and HM Courts & Tribunals Service remains incomplete, blocking end-to-end case tracking. The migration to Atlas has not resolved data fragmentation or version inconsistencies across systems.