The government has been accused of massaging the asylum numbers after claiming it's cleared the backlog of asylum claims, built up before the end of June 2022.
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Its own figures however show that more than four and a half thousand complex applications are still awaiting a decision. Meanwhile the overall backlog of outstanding asylum applications - old and new - is almost a hundred thousand.
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