The Government plans to set up a new independent panel focused on asylum appeals to help reduce the backlog of 51,000 asylum appeals.

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

Government scrambles to draw up contingency plan as more councils indicate taking legal action

The security minister said the government would close all asylum hotels by the end of parliament, but it must be done ‘in a managed and ordered way’

The use of asylum hotels has risen under Labour, but the party has pledged to empty them by the next general election

The Home Secretary told of how it was 'completely unacceptable' delays in the appeals process left failed asylum seekers in the system for years.

The government would establish a new and independent body, with the aim of hearing cases more quickly.

The Government plans to set up a new independent panel focused on asylum appeals to help reduce the backlog of 51,000 asylum appeals.

Asylum appeals to be fast-tracked by trained adjudicators rather than the judiciary

LONDON: The UK government vowed on Sunday to overhaul its asylum system after weekend protests broke out across the country at hotels housing migrants, with more planned. The…

Yvette Cooper promised to take measures to slash the backlog and move migrants out of hotels

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.