Official government data shows 111,084 people claimed asylum in the year to June, up 14 per cent on the previous 12 months.

Official government data shows 111,084 people claimed asylum in the year to June, up 14 per cent on the previous 12 months.

Rise comes despite applications being processed much faster than two years ago as backlog falls below 100,000 for first time since 2021

Record number of asylum claims in Labour’s first year but real progress has been made to slash the backlog, as Holly Bancroft and Alicja Hagopian report

Home Office data showed a total of 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June - up 14 per cent from 97,107 in the year to June 2024.