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The government should speed up asylum seekers’ claims instead of focusing on costly and unworkable deterrents

The legislation is expected to make asylum claims inadmissible from those who travel to the UK on small boats.

Editorial: A Home Office questionnaire is unlikely to provide an answer to the problems that are causing delays

Britain will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt to clear record levels of backlogs.

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures reveal that 160,919 people were waiting for an initial decision on their asylum claim at the end of December - up 60% from a year earlier

A total of 160,919 asylum seekers were waiting for an initial decision on their claim at the end of December.

AMNESTY International has warned that the Tories' latest plans to cut the Home Office backlog of asylum claims is a "recipe for more…

Charities fear plan to instead introduce questionnaire in English could result in claims being wrongly turned down

The number of asylum seekers waiting for their application to be decided has risen to a record high of more than 160,000 after tripling in the past three years, new figures have revealed.

The figure is 60% up from 100,564 for the same period in 2021.

Ministers hope fast-tracking cases from high-acceptance countries will help clear backlog