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Home Office officials outline efforts to reduce asylum backlog of 97,000 cases and end hotel use

11 February 2025
Home Affairs Committee questions Home Office's Permanent Secretary and Second Permanent Secretary

Comprehensive new Commons Library briefing on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2024-25

06 February 2025
Helpful new briefing explains what is the Bill, focusing on its main provisions and most significant clauses

Lords committee warns immigration policies and high visa fees threaten UK’s ability to attract science and technology talent

05 February 2025
House of Lords Science and Technology Committee calls for a more holistic immigration policy to compete in global race for talent

APPG on Refugees calls on the Government to improve ‘overly complex, restrictive, and slow’ safe and legal routes for refugees

04 February 2025
All-Party Parliamentary Group says Labour's approach to cracking down on smuggling gangs should go hand-in-hand with greater support for genuine refugees

Report finds media and politicians encouraged widespread hostility towards migrants, paving the way for the ‘hostile environment’

02 February 2025
News articles and parliamentary debates from 2010 to 2014 frequently associated immigration with crime and illegality

Labour’s ‘landmark’ Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill is published

30 January 2025
74-page Bill introduced to the House of Commons and given its First Reading today

Asylum Aid: Government confirms it will repeal Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024

29 January 2025
Act to be repealed in the current parliamentary session, and all associated policy guidance to be withdrawn

‘Sole responsibility’ rule discriminates against migrant single mothers in the care sector

27 January 2025
Thousands of single mothers who came to the UK before 11 March 2024 denied visas for their children

Migration Advisory Committee to publish family visa review in the summer after record number of consultation responses

23 January 2025
More than 2000 people respond to MAC's call for evidence as it reviews impact of raising minimum income requirement to £38,700

New briefing finds stateless people in the UK face prolonged ‘legal limbo’

23 January 2025
Asylum Aid and other organisations say overall situation for stateless people is "cruel and destructive"

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