Home Office spending on asylum rose by £1.85bn in 2022/23, and figures show 80 of asylum seekers are waiting longer than six months for a decision.
The cost of the UK’s asylum system has almost doubled in a year and now stands at £3.97 billion as the backlog hit another record high.
A total of 175,457 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the UK at the end of June 2023, up 44% from 122,213 for the same period a year earlier – the highest figure since current records began in 2010. But the number of cases waiting to be dealt with increased by less than 1% in the three months to the end of June, suggesting the rise is slowing down.
The Government was also accused of failing vulnerable Afghans after figures confirmed they were the most common nationality among Channel crossings in first six months of the year and more than 9,000 had applied for asylum in the same period – almost double the number for the previous 12 months.
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