Are government pledges on track?

The Prime Minister has given priority to the government to the government to deal with illegal immigration and “restoration order”.

Sir Kir Stmper has promised “breaking gangs”. This follows the pledge of the anterior sage Sunak’s “stopping boats”.

The BBC Verifai sees major governmental vows – including dealing with small boat crossings, eliminating the use of asylum hotels and returning more people who have no right to be in the country.

Labor promised “End Refugee Hotel, taxpayer saving billions of pounds“In his general election manifesto.

The government wants to fulfill this vow by 2029.

However, recent figures suggest that in June 2025, there were more refuge in the hotel than in June 2024 – a few days before the general election.

At the end of June 2025, the hotel had 32,059 people – till 2,474.

Despite the increase in 12 months, the number has fallen from March 2025 to 286.

The government regularly does not publish data on the number of actual hotels in use, but government sources have suggested that in July 2024 there are 210 refuge hotels below 212 to 212.

The refuge process determines if a person can live in the UK because they have “well -established fear of harassment” in their country.

Once someone applies for asylum, they receive legal protection while waiting for the decision – including housing if they cannot support themselves financially.

Almost all the people coming by small boat claim asylum – they created a third of all refuge applications in the last 12 months. Another large group of claimants was already in Britain who had abolished their visa.

Since 2020, the government has been rapidly dependent on hotels, partly because other types of asylum housing supplies have not been placed with numbers in small boats.

But the use of asylum hotel is expensive – £ 5.7m per day in 2024-25The government has started saving money by adding beds in rooms in hotels to maximize the number of people in each site.

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt, Told Parliament in JuneThat he did not believe that the government would fulfill its pledge: “Clearly, I don’t think it would be achieved”, he said.

“They are in large numbers, and it is very difficult to see how they are going to decrease even at the length of Parliament.”

As of August 20, 27,997 people came to Britain in small boats in 2025 – up to 45% compared to the same period in 2024.

To reduce the number of crossings, the government has promised to disrupt people smuggling gangs behind it.

But it is not clear how the government plans to measure its progress, or when this target will be met.

The home office reported that American data was being “collected and published in the future” on the work done by the authorities to disrupt criminal gangs “.

French authorities have some information about efforts to prevent small boat crossings – under the 2023 deal, receiving £ 476M from the UK in three years.

They say that about 33,468 people were prevented from crossing between July 2024 and August 2025. We do not know what happened to him or did he try to cross again.

High-profile cases of UK-based smugglers are being sentenced, To include a person who helped in smuggling more than 3,000 people,

In July, UK and France agreed to a “one, one out” pilotUnder this scheme, Britain returns to France for each migrant, a strong case for shelter in Britain and one migrant will come on the other way.

Most immigration of Britain are legal – it includes people who are allowed to come to work, study, refuge or come for other authorized purposes.

In the last 12 months, around 49,000 people illegally entered the UK – about 5% out of about one million people who came to the UK between July 2024 and June 2025.

The government has also promised “To clean the shelter backlog,

This refers to the backlog of claims by shelter seekers who are waiting to hear if they will be given refugee status and allowed to live in the UK.

Since last June, decisions in asylum cases have increased by 55%.

This is combined with a recent decline in applications, which means that the overall backlog of refuge cases has fallen compared to the end of June 2024.

Under labor, 39% of asylum claims were provided in the year by June 2025. This is less than the conservatives of the previous year, when about 44% of claims were made.

Another backlog that the government wants to clarify is a high number of court appeal to the refugee after rejecting claims.

The backlog has deteriorated since last summer election. There were about 51,000 in March 2025 – a record high.

The government has also promised to “increase” the “returns” of people who have no legal rights to be in Britain. It said that it would set up a new return and enforcement unit with 1,000 additional employees.

Between July 2024 (when labor came to power) and between July 2025, 35,052 returns were resumed by the house office.

It is 13% compared to the same period 12 months ago.

Therefore, the government is fulfilling this pledge, but it is worth noting that only 9,115 people were forcibly removed – in which an immigration officer can escort an aircraft.

In this figure, 10,191 unsuccessful shelter seekers were returned in this period, but they do not say how many were applied or voluntary.

From April to June, separate government figures gave a full breakdown, many of which voluntarily left, at that time without the help of the government or at that time without its knowledge, even, even at that time, its knowledge did so, As the BBC verification has earlier stated,

It is despite repeated claims of ministers that the government has “removed” or even “deported” to many people.

The home office says that all returns results are the result of collective efforts by the department.