Record 111,000 UK asylum applications in past year, figures show

According to the new home office figures, records of 111,000 asylum applications were made to the UK until June, but government cases are running faster.

This increased by 14% compared to the previous year and higher than 103,000 peaks in 2002.

However, the authorities commit more lawsuits than the general election, that is, there may be less people who need housing support in the long term.

The latest data, which covers Labour’s first year in office, is faced with increasing pressure on migration.

The figures also showed that 71,000 cases about 91,000 people expect the first decision. The number of cases is lower than the number of people, because a case may cover the main plaintiff’s family.

This accumulation is almost half of the summit of 134,000 cases at the end of June 2023.

This means that 18,536 less people waiting for a decision today are less than in March.

The number of asylum seekers in hotels has risen to 32,059 – higher than the time of the Labor Party to power, but under conservatives, well below 56,000 summits in September 2023.

Labour promised to clean up the accumulated work until 2029, promised to cut channel transitions and open accommodation by the new government.

Ministers hope to end the use of hotels in the long run. However, this depends on how quickly they can remove people who do not have a cause in England.

Asylum seekers who cannot financially support themselves are placed in houses while taking their claims and appeals.

In the year ending in June 2025, the Ministry of Interior forcibly lifted 9,100 people – one quarter of the previous year.

More than half were foreign national criminals who were deported at the end of the sentences.

By the way, the Supreme Court on Tuesday EPPING should stop a hotel in ESSEX, housing asylum seekers After a legal challenge by the local council.

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Daastan, who does not want to use the real name of the accumulated works of Asylum claims, has.

The 26 -year -old fled Afghanistan in 2023 and was afraid of his life after being targeted by his father and brother Taliban.

After arriving to England, he applied for asylum and the Ministry of the Interior found him a hotel room in Yorkshire, which he had been since then.

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His claim was rejected about a year later and now he is waiting for a appeal.

If three meals are given and exit with a guard, it is allowed to go for a walk. Otherwise, the roommate spends most of his days quietly because he does not speak English.

One day, he watched the guard and the police hip from the window and stopped the approach of the protesters.

“All the asylum seekers wanted was a shelter, so the government put us in a hotel. This was not our choice,” he said. “We didn’t do anything.”

Over elsewhere, Godgive, who did not want to use his real name, told the BBC that he felt “left behind” and “stuck”.

He did not see his six -year -old son because he left Cameroon three years ago and escaped from violence.

While waiting for the result of his claim, he lives in a common house with other asylum seekers provided by the Ministry of Interior in the northeast of England.

A home manager comes regularly to sweep the bedroom and make sure that there are no forbidden items such as TV. There is very little privacy.

Godgive said he was thinking of finishing his life at a stage: “I had to stop living. It was too much.”

He said he could not work or work, dream of being volunteer or educating with new skills – everything that will give a way to contribute to his purpose and contribution.

“I don’t know where to go and I don’t know when it will change.”

According to the new figures, state expenditures decreased by 12%in the UK.

The total fell from £ 5.38 billion in the previous year, which ended in March 2025.

It covers home office costs related to shelter, including direct cash support and accommodation, but not costs for blocking immigrants passing the channel.

Special costs for hotels were not published in the latest data, but the home office figures published in July showed that 2.1 billion pounds were spent in the hotel accommodation that fell from £ 3 billion in the previous year.

The data until June 2025 also showed the following:

• Small boat arrivals made up 88% of those who arrived at 43,000
• This was 38% higher than the previous year, but in 2022, 46,000 people were slightly lower than the summit.
• More than half of the arrivals came from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Sudan and Syria
• The Afghans were the most common nationality that made up 15% of small boat arrival (6,400)
• Since January 2018, three -quarters of small boat arrival were male and only 16% were children
• 5.011 Children – People under the age of 18 – crossed by a small boat to apply for asylum in June

Interior Minister Yette Cooper said that the Labor Party “strengthened British visa and immigration controls, reduces shelter costs and increased sharply and increases their returns.”

He accused the “broken migration and asylum system” and said the previous conservative government left it in “chaos”.

Shadow Interior Minister Chris Philp said the government was “failed” and lost control of our borders. “

Liberal Democratic Spokesman Lisa Smart deputy, asylum accumulation “very long for a long time,” he said.

“Conservatives threw our immigration system in the trash and allowed the numbers to embrace. He said.

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