James Cleverly has defended the Authorities over its declare to have delivered on Rishi Sunak’s pledge of clearing a backlog of asylum claims.
Mr Sunak pledged in December 2022 to “abolish” the backlog of greater than 91,000 excellent “legacy” asylum circumstances older than June 2022 by the tip of 2023.
The House Workplace claimed the backlog had been cleared however officers additionally admitted that 4,500 of the 91,300 had been reviewed however not but determined, claiming it was “inconceivable” to take action throughout the timescale.
Mr Cleverly insisted this morning that “each single a type of circumstances was addressed”. The House Secretary advised Occasions Radio: “Within the overwhelming majority of these circumstances a ultimate determination was made both to grant or to not grant.
“And the place there have been sophisticated circumstances, the place there have been discrepancies, the place we would have liked to examine on age or safety or no matter, these are often called complicated circumstances, there are 4,500 of these and we’re not going to compromise on our border safety or our security checks for these individuals.
“However now we have cleared that backlog. They’ve all been processed and along with that after all we’re nonetheless processing the purposes which have are available in since.”
Labour stated the Authorities’s declare to have cleared the legacy backlog was “false”.
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