The numbers of migrants successfully claiming asylum has reached the highest levels since records began, according to Home Office statistics.
Thursday’s figures show 67,978 asylum seekers were granted refugee status in the year to June - more than three times the amount in the year prior when 21,436 claims were granted.The figures also showed however that small boat crossings fell by 29% in the year to June 2024 - a statistic former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak targeted during his tenure.
This, along with the increase in successful claims meant the UK’s total backlog of cases fell by almost a third, from 175,457 at the end of June 2023 to 118,882 people at the end of June this year. The ‘grant rate’ of these decisions - the proportion of asylum applications which lead to refugee status at the initial stage - was 58 per cent.This was down from 71 per cent in the year ending June 2023 but was an increase on pre-pandemic rates of about a third.
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