The Government’s current business case for reform of the asylum system is ‘incomplete and unrealistic’, according to the Public Accounts…
The Home Office faces a ‘huge challenge’ to clear the asylum backlog by the end of the year, a committee has said
The committee said: “Despite claiming to have increased the number of asylum decisions it makes through its asylum and protection transformation programme, the Home Office still faces a huge challenge to clear the backlog it has allowed to build up. It says that while the department has acknowledged courts will hear “significantly more appeals and Immigration Enforcement will need to detain and remove many more failed asylum seekers”, the implications will not be set out in a proper business case until next year – after the backlog-clearing deadline.
Regarding room-sharing plans for asylum seekers, the MPs said they are “concerned” the Home Office “does not have a robust process in place to make sure sharing arrangements will be safe”, and warned that “without proper safeguards there could be serious consequences”. Among its recommendations the committee urged the Home Office to set out how it will give local authorities a “meaningful say” on the use of accommodation in their areas, publish an updated business case showing the impacts of its programme of reforms, and to explain how it intends to reduce the backlog of newer claims “that it has allowed to build up”.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “The Government is working to end the unacceptable use of hotels by moving asylum seekers into alternative, cheaper accommodation and clearing the legacy backlog.
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