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Asked about the asylum backlog last week, Suella Braverman claimed: “If we go down the path of comparing backlogs, the Labour party will be found wanting.” The latest data shows the backlog of asylum cases is far larger than it was in 2010.

As outlined above, whether you look at the total number of people waiting for asylum cases to be resolved or those awaiting an initial decision, the backlog was many times larger in December 2022 than it was in June 2010.

”, which the Labour government began working through in 2006. The coalition government continued this work after coming to power in 2010.that this legacy caseload comprised between 400,000 and 450,000 individuals. The Migration Observatory’s Dr Walsh told Full Fact the ‘legacy caseload’ is “absolutely not comparable” with the backlog figures cited in the mostHe added: “As [...] Reid stated in parliament, it dealt with all “unresolved cases”, which included people who had been refused but not removed, duplicate records, withdrawn cases, and cases that had been resolved but not recorded as such.

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