The data comes just a week after net migration rose to 606,000 in the year to December 2022 - the highest on record for a calendar year.
We speak to asylum seekers who have decided to go underground and avoid the immigration system completelySeparate Home Office figures released on the same day also showed the backlog of asylum cases in the UK hit a new record high.
A total of 172,758 people waited for an initial decision on an asylum application at the end of March 2023 - up 57% compared with the same period last year. Labour also claims that over the past year, only 1% of small boat asylum cases have had a decision made and that the productivity rate of Home Office workers had fallen from 14 decisions per month in 2011 and 18 in 2016, to just five per month in the last financial year.will head to Moldova for the European Political Community summit where he will warn that a rise in illegal migration and Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine have created"unprecedented threats" at Europe's borders.
Mr Sunak is hoping to build on migration agreements secured with France and Albania and will begin negotiations for a returns agreement with Moldova. He will also announce a new partnership with Bulgaria to help it destroy the business model of organised criminal gangs who are facilitating illegal migration.
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