{"id":57367,"date":"2026-06-06T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/57367\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:36:48","slug":"mps-find-5-billion-asylum-system-has-no-clear-goals-despite-labour-overhaul-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/57367\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs Find \u00a35 Billion Asylum System Has No Clear Goals Despite Labour ‘Overhaul’ \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A report<\/a> by the Public Accounts Committee of MPs has blasted the government for failing to say what the asylum system is \u201ctrying to achieve, or how success would be judged.\u201d Despite all the talk\u2026<\/p>\n

The asylum system was found to cost the Home Office and MoJ around \u00a34.9 billion in 2024-25 (including \u00a32.7 billion on accommodation), with claims hitting 100,600 in the year to December 2025. More than double the 2019 figure\u2026<\/p>\n

The government announced an \u201centirely new asylum model\u201d in November 2025, aiming to cut spending by \u00a31 billion a year by 2028-29 with a new Home Office asylum group and cross-government board. The committee found no explanation of how these will work in practice or what the system is collectively trying to achieve\u2026<\/p>\n

MPs said that poor and fragmented data remains a massive barrier because there is no single reliable view of cases, basic figures like absconder numbers are unavailable, and some staff still work off individual spreadsheets despite the move to the \u201cAtlas\u201d system.<\/p>\n

Appeal hearings are now taking around 60 weeks. 41% of a January 2023 sample viewed by the PAC remained in limbo\u2026<\/p>\n

The promised 10-year accommodation strategy is still unpublished. The Home Office also admitted it does not count everyone out of the country, so cannot say with certainty how many failed asylum seekers remain. Going about as well as expected\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report by the Public Accounts Committee of MPs has blasted the government for failing to say what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1351,5,6],"class_list":["post-57367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-asylum","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116702730241055286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}