Number refugees too United Kingdom reached New Record last year, according to data released this Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior. really? 175,457 people Awaiting the British authorities’ decision at the end of June 44% increase With respect to the same month of the previous year. Increase in waiting list for response bad news on behalf of his government Rishi Altar, made speeding up the processing of applications one of its main priorities, and reduce accommodation expenses for refugees.
At the end of last year, Altar set itself the following goal: to solve all asylum applications submitted before June 2022It represented about 90,000 cases at the time. A goal not yet achieved: Only one answer to this question has been given so far. Just over 20,000 applicationsdespite staff reinforcementsdoubled in just one year, and the increase in the number of cases handled per month by each official increased from five in June 2022 to seven a year later.
Speeding up the evaluation of applications has not largely prevented waiting lists from being reduced. The number of visitors also increased. last year 45,728 people crossing the border english channel irregularly, 25,065 of them between January and August. A figure that has dropped significantly this year: 18,829 people have been counted so far this year; Nearly one-fifth of these took place in the last two weeks.
Opposition criticism
immigration officer labor partyStephen Kinnock files another criminal complaint against the Government immigration policy you define as “chaos”. “Only 1 percent of the 45,000 people who crossed the English Channel last year received a response, and the number of people whose asylum claims were denied has dropped by 70 percent since 2010. disaster record For the prime minister and the interior minister,” he assured Sky News.
Although the numbers represent a new situation Blow to Sunak’s credibilityThe administration insists that its main priority is to reduce the number of irregular entries into the country. “The government’s goal is clear: We must do it” stop the boats “We want to prevent the unacceptable number of people who are putting their lives at risk by making these dangerous and illegal journeys, which continue to put an unprecedented pressure on our country and our asylum system.” interior ministry spokesperson.
Cost reducing
The government continues to insist on its goal reduce costs the sum of the income obtained from the accommodation of asylum seekers in hotels and hostels, £3.9 billion per year (approximately 4,500 million euros). According to data from the Ministry of Interior, a figure that has quadrupled in the last three years. The executive seeks to reduce these costs by transporting refugees to disused military bases and barges. ‘Bibby Stockholm’It’s where the first residents were transplanted earlier this month and evacuated soon after due to the emergence of bacteria. legionella In internal water circuits.
The government argues that the use of these facilities will help relieve public accountsbut for now it only has spaces capacity of several thousand peopleThis will require the remainder of the asylum seekers to be kept in their existing accommodation. health safety issues and court battles The challenges presented by local governments and human rights organizations have created further challenges for the Administration, which has so far only managed to relocate a few dozen people to the new facilities.