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Public more positive about immigration despite record high arrivals

Public attitudes towards immigration are becoming more positive despite record high levels of arrivals, a think tank has said. Net migration to the UK reached 504,000 people last year, the highest figure since records began in the 1960s, as the ...

09 Mar 2023 at 00:01

Cost of asylum system nears £4bn as backlog hits new record high

Cost of asylum system tops £3.97bn as backlog hits new record high

The cost of the UK’s asylum system almost doubled in a year and now stands at nearly £4 billion as the backlog hit another record high. Home Office spending on asylum rose by £1.85 billion, from £2.12 billion in 2021/22 to £3.97 billion in ...

24 Aug 2023 at 16:50

Sunak insists his ‘Stop the Boats’ pledge will cut ‘unacceptable’ asylum bill

Rishi Sunak warned the asylum system is under “unsustainable pressure” after the bill for the taxpayer almost doubled in a year to nearly £4 billion. The Prime Minister, who has promised to “stop the boats” bringing migrants across the ...

24 Aug 2023 at 23:02

Net migration ‘unusually high’ as UK heads towards General Election

Net migration remains “unusually high” as the UK heads towards an election, experts said, despite official estimates suggesting a 10% drop in numbers last year. It comes after the measure for the difference between the number of ...

23 May 2024 at 19:20

Visa applications for key routes to UK drop by 37% in a year

The number of migrants applying for key visa routes to the UK has dropped by more than third in a year, data shows. Applications covering a total of 772,200 people were submitted across the main visa categories in the year to ...

10 Apr 2025 at 15:49

New estimate ‘shows scale of exploitation on Wild West care visa route’

An estimate suggesting thousands of care workers have come to the UK in recent years under sponsors whose licences were later revoked is said to demonstrate the exploitation in a “Wild West” system. The Home Office said more ...

12 Mar 2025 at 19:28

End to asylum seekers in hotels ‘a fair way off’ despite latest fall

More than 32,000 asylum seekers were being housed temporarily in UK hotels at the end of March, as one expert predicted the Government meeting its pledge to end the use of such accommodation “still seems a fair way off”. ...

22 May 2025 at 13:01

Asylum applications hit new record high while backlog drops, figures show

The number of asylum applications in the UK has reached a new record high while the backlog in cases has dropped below 100,000 for the first time in four years, official figures show. A total of 111,084 people applied ...

21 Aug 2025 at 15:02

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