Record 110,000 people claimed asylum in the UK in the past year
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Record 110,000 people claimed asylum in the UK in the past year
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More than 36,000 asylum seekers were being housed in Home Office hotels in September, a rise of two per cent year-on-year despite a pledge by Labour to curb their use, new data shows.
Record number of asylum claims in Labour’s first year but real progress has been made to slash the backlog, as Holly Bancroft and…
Though the asylum backlog is at its lowest level since 2021, the government is still housing over 100,000 asylum seekers. A third…
Number of people arriving on small boats rose over past year as an average of 71 migrants now being crammed onto dinghies
Labour has pledged to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers by the end of this parliament in 2029
The use of asylum hotels has risen under Labour, but the party has pledged to empty them by the next general election
There were 32,059 asylum seekers in UK hotels by the end of June. Labour has promised to end the use of the sites by 2029.
