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Asylum application backlog reaches new record high of 175,457, figures show – UK politics live

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The Home Office figures out today also show that 71% of initial decisions on asylum applications in the year to June 2023 were grants of refugee status, humanitarian protection or alternative forms of leave, PA Media reports. PA says:

This is “substantially higher” than in pre-pandemic years, when around a third of initial decisions were grants, the Home Office said.

The grant rate has been above 70% since 2021.

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