Yesterday in Parliament the home secretary claimed the asylum initial decision backlog is “down by 17,000”. That is not correct in terms of the total number of applications awaiting an initial decision, which is up since December 2022. (1/2)
The Home Office has since clarified that the 17,000 figure refers to the backlog of initial decisions relating to asylum applications made before 28 June 2022, though this wasn’t made clear in Ms Braverman’s comments.: “We are on track to deliver on reducing the backlog of initial decisions and the legacy backlog. Those are decisions that have been waiting in the system up until July or June last year. Those are the backlogs that we are working on.
This isn’t the first time the government has made potentially misleading claims about the asylum backlog. In recent months we’ve written about
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