LONDON:
In 2024, the largest group of asylum applicants came from Pakistan, followed by Afghanistan. In previous years, they came mainly from Syria and Iran.
The Labor Government of Great Britain promised to reduce an accumulation of asylum applications and end “the expensive use of hotels to house asylum seekers”, saving £ 1 billion annually, the Minister of Finance announced Wednesday, announced Wednesday.
“Financing that I have provided today … will reduce the asylum portfolio, listen to more appeal cases and return to people who have no right to be here, saving the taxpayer one billion pounds a year,” Reeves said in his review of expenses that establishes the expenses and savings of the Treasury in the coming years.
The number of asylum applicants from the United Kingdom has increased abruptly in recent years, with tens of thousands of applications that expect to be determined, according to official figures.
Work, which came to power last July, has proposed to address the situation.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has begun formal conversations with un specified countries to create “return centers” outside the United Kingdom for those who have exhausted all legal routes to remain in the country.
The number of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom tripled at 84,200 in 2024 from an average of 27,500 between 2011 and 2020.
In 2022, there were approximately 13 asylum applications per 10,000 people in the United Kingdom, compared to 25 asylum applications per 10,000 people in the EU at the same time.
About 11 percent of migrants in the United Kingdom were asylum applicants or refugees in 2023, almost double the 2019 figure of six percent.
The number of people crossing the channel in makeshift ships, a route that practically did not exist before 2018, has increased considerably in recent years.
