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...Home Office figures released on Thursday showed that the number of asylum applications awaiting a decision in the last three months of 2023 fell by 28 per cent year-on-year to 95,252....
...Other additional costs include £28mn spent by 2023-24 by the Home Office to set up the scheme, £12.6mn in training staff to escort asylum seekers in 2024-25 and £2mn a year in ongoing staff costs....
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...Experts from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said removing asylum-seekers to the central African country, or anywhere else from where they would be at risk of being sent...
...The Home Office said in a statement: “We’re focused on delivering for the British people and stopping the boats....
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...The plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has cost the government £100mn more this year, taking the total to £240mn, in a further sign of how much financial and political capital Prime Minister Rishi Sunak...
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