According to the Home Office, 99% of all individuals who arrived in small boats in the year ending in June 2024 had an asylum application filed, either as a principal applicant or as a dependent.
Nonetheless, the data indicates that 96% of asylum requests submitted by individuals who arrived in small boats within that time frame are pending.
Furthermore, 33,224 persons, or 31% of the small boat entries since 2018, are still awaiting an asylum judgment.
According to Seema Malhotra, minister of immigration, the numbers demonstrate the “chaos the Tories left in our immigration and asylum system”.
Ms. Malhotra issued a statement in which she stated: “Small boat crossings increased by nearly 20% in the first half of this year, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the Rwanda partnership.”
“The government is losing billions due to the surge in the asylum backlog. Furthermore, since 2010, the deportation of foreign national criminals has decreased by 20%.
According to Home Office data, small boat arrivals increased by 18% between January and June of this year compared to the same time in 2023 before beginning to decline.
