Getty imagesA record 111,000 shelter applications were made in the UK during June to June, but the government is processing cases rapidly, showing new home office figures.
This is an increase of 14% from the previous year, and it exceeds the peak of 103,000 in 2002.
But officials are processing more cases more than before the general election, which means that less people in the system may require housing support in the long term.
The latest data, which covers the first year of labor in the office, has to face increasing pressure on immigration.
The data also revealed that 71,000 cases were waiting for an initial decision, belonging to 91,000 people.
This backlog is about half the peak of 134,000 cases at the end of June 2023.
This means that there are 18,536 less people waiting for today’s decision in March.
The number of shelter seekers in hotels has increased to 32,059 – when labor came to power, but in September 2023 under Conservative, below the peak of 56,000 in September 2023.
Labor has promised to clean the backlog by 2029, promising to cut the channel crossing and open the new government -run housing.
Ministers hope to end the use of hotels over the long term. However, it depends on how soon they can remove those who have no case in Britain.
Those who seek asylum can not financially support themselves, they are kept in the housing while their claims and appeals are considered.
In the year ending June 2025, the Home Office forcibly removed 9,100 people of the previous year.
More than half of the foreign national criminals were being deported at the end of the sentences.
Meanwhile, the High Court ruled on Tuesday Epping, a hotel in Essex, housing asylum seekers should stop After a legal challenge by the local council.
Other councils across the country, With some runs by laborNow considering legal action.
‘I left behind’
Amidst the backlog of asylum claims, Dastan is – who did not want to use his real name.
The 26 -year -old fled to Afghanistan in 2023, fearing his life after being targeted by Taliban by Taliban.
After reaching the UK, he applied for asylum and the house office found him a hotel room in Yorkshire, where he is ever.
“You avoid a problem and now you are in another problem,” he told the BBC.
His claim was rejected after about a year, and now he is awaiting the result of the appeal.
He is given three meals a day and if he signs with a guard, he is allowed to walk. Otherwise, he spends most of his days in silence because his roommate does not speak English.
One day, through his window, he saw as a guard and the police surrounded the hotel and stopped the protesters from getting closer.
“We all wanted the shelter to want to have a shelter so the government put us in a hotel. It was not our choice,” he said. “We have done nothing.”
In other places, Godgive – who did not want to use his real name – told the BBC that he felt “left behind” and “stuck” in the refuge system.
She has not seen her six -year -old son since she left Cameron, running away from violence three years ago.
Waiting for the result of her claim, she lives in a common house with other shelters offered by the house office in the north-east of England.
A house manager regularly comes to sweep his bedroom and ensures that he has no prohibited items like TV. There is very little secrecy.
Godgive said that he considered ending his life in a phase: “I needed to stop living. It was too much.”
Unable to work or study, he said that he dreamed of voluntarily or training himself in new skills – anything to give him a purpose and contribution.
“I don’t know where to go and I don’t know when it is going to change.”
The government’s expenditure on refuge in the UK was reduced by 12%, showing new figures.
The total of the year ended March 2025 stood at £ 4.76bn, below £ 5.38bn last year.
This includes the cost of home office related to refuge, including direct cash support and housing, but does not have the cost related to intercepting migrants crossing the channel.
The specific cost for the hotel was not published in the latest data, but the home office data released in July revealed that £ 2.1BN was spent on the hotel residence – below £ 3BN last year.
Data for the year 2025 to the year also showed that:
- 88% arrival in the arrival of small boat is accounted for, 43,000
- It was 38% higher than the previous year, but in 2022, 46,000 people had slightly lower than the summit.
- More than half of the people came from Afghanistan, Irritria, Iran, Sudan and Syria.
- Afghan was the most common nationality, accounting for 15% small boat arrival (6,400)
- Since January 2018, there were three-fourths of small boat arrival men, while only 16% were children.
- 5,011 children – people under the age of 18 – crossed by small boat
Home Secretary Yatete Cooper stated that Labor has “strengthened the UK visa and immigration controls, cut asylum costs and increased rapid enforcement and returns”.
He blamed the “broken immigration and refuge system” and said that the previous orthodox government had left it in “anarchy”.
Shadow’s Home Secretary Chris Filp said that the government is “unsuccessful” and lost control of our borders “.
Liberal Democrat spokesperson Lisa Smart MP said the refuge backlog “is very big for a very long”.
“The conservatives trash our immigration system and spirals the numbers. Now this labor government is failing to hold the crisis,” he said.
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