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...The FCDO data showed the UK spent a record £2.5bn in 2023 on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers awaiting processing of their claims — equivalent to £7mn a day....
...The NAO findings also coincided with a separate report that underscored the waste in human capital resulting from the government’s record in managing the asylum system....
...Rishi Sunak defended his government’s record on asylum seekers arriving in small boats and attacked Labour on the issue: It is non-negotiable, that the British people decide who comes here and not criminal...
...The prime minister, who has been under pressure to tackle record numbers of unprocessed asylum claims, claimed on January 1 that he had met his 2023 pledge to deal with more than 92,000 cases....
...But it formed part of wider discussions within the government of then prime minister Tony Blair about the use of “nuclear options” to reduce the record numbers of people seeking asylum in the UK at the time...
...The harsher migration policies were first tested in the aftermath of 2015 and 2016, when a record number of people claimed asylum in the EU, many fleeing the Syrian civil war....
...The new asylum policy grabbed the most attention. The EPP now backs not just processing asylum seekers outside the EU but settling them there too....
...Last year, 26,500 Egyptians applied for asylum in the EU, up from 15,400 in 2022, according to the EU Asylum Agency....
...Home secretary James Cleverly signed a new asylum deal with Rwanda on Tuesday to revive the UK’s troubled plan to send migrants to the African nation and head off criticism over the government’s record on...
...The government came under renewed pressure last week after official data showed that net immigration had hit a record high of 745,000 in 2022 despite years of Tory pledges to cut the numbers....
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...MPs have cast fresh doubt on the UK government’s approach to tackling a record backlog in asylum claims, criticising the “unacceptable costs of an inefficient system, a lack of safeguards for vulnerable...
...planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”...
...The average duration of a Commons sitting day in the current parliamentary session, which began in November, has been 7 hours and 9 minutes, a record low since New Labour came to power in 1997, the FT found...
...The European Migration Network reported last week that asylum applications in Ireland last year jumped 415 per cent to a record 13,651....
...Sunak is betting his political fortune on an expensive, impractical and illegal scheme to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, even though asylum applicants made up just 8 per cent of non-EU immigrants to Britain...
...The lawsuit comes amid soaring tensions over migration and the US-Mexico border, where a record number of people from around the world have attempted to cross....
...The number of people arriving in the UK by small boat via the Channel fell by more than a third in 2023, according to government figures, marking the first year-on-year decline since records began in 2018...
...The cost of the UK’s asylum system has nearly doubled in the past year to almost £4bn, according to official data that reveals huge increases associated with the record backlog in the processing of claims...
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...Only about one-fifth of the 400,000 or so annual return decisions across the EU is actually carried out, a poor record that corrodes public trust in the asylum system....
...But the Home Office has struggled to get his policies off the ground in the face of legal challenges and ballooning costs associated with a record backlog of asylum claims....
...Encounters include migrants who seek asylum at a port of entry and those detained after an unauthorised border crossing....
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