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Our political correspondent nick eardley has been working with the bbc verify team and looking at the claims. the big claim from the government today is that its got rid of the legacy backlog of asylum applications. this is what rishi sunak told parliament in december 2022. when he talked about the backlog, number ten said he was referring to all cases before the 20th ofjune 2022. now, the home secretary said this morning they had all been processed, so the government had fulfilled this promise....

Nearly 100,000 cases and they nearly100,000 cases and they havent— nearly 100,000 cases and they havent even fully cleared the bit of the _ havent even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting. the government has significantly improved the efficiency of the asylum system, more additions made each month, and it claims its policies have helped to reduce the small boat arrivals by a third year on year. with an election likely later this year, the verdict on rishi sunak�*s immigr...

This is bbc news, the headlines. these are the live scenes in beirut. its been confirmed to the bbc that a senior hamas official has been killed in an explosion in lebanon. we will have more on that in becoming a half—hour. also in the news, japans prime minister conference at the five coastguard crew had been killed in a collision between two planes in tokyos airport. all 379 passengers and crew managed to escape the japan airlines aircraft before it was engulfed in flames. the uk government ...

Hello, im lewis vaughanjones. youre watching the context on bbc news. the uk government says it has met a promise to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims despite figures showing thousands of �*complex cases remain unresolved. hello and welcome to the programme. the home secretary says the government has "done what it promised" and dealt with a backlog of older asylum cases. james cleverly said "every single one" of the backlog applications had been processed although there are ar...

Being dealt with. sexual allegations which do not result in early guilty pleas that need the trial process to handle them. so the problem is not going to go away quickly and it is one that requires i think more investment of a type that i certainly encouraged when i was in office and would like to see more of in the years ahead. i office and would like to see more of in the years ahead.— in the years ahead. i hear what you sa but in the years ahead. i hear what you say but you — in the years...

Like missing application meetings or not keeping in touch with the home office. and finally, have a look at this quote from the home offices release today. it says that from the figures its produced, 35,000 cases were non—substa ntive decisions. that often means that theyve been withdrawn from the figures. so as you can see, its a lot more complicated than some of the governments headline claims suggest. and finally, ijust want to show you this. although the legacy backlog has gone down consid...

The backlog is false. the figures are nearly 100,000 cases and they havent even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting. with the number of small boats arriving down by more than a third last year compared with 2022, and a much improved processing rate for asylum cases, the government is claiming progress on immigration control but its critics argue the figures have been massaged and are far from a pledge delivered, the statistics show a promise broken. mark easton, bbc news. le...

Thank you forjoining me. starting with robert buckland, a backlog of 65,000 cases, some people would describe that as a mess. the crown court i describe that as a mess. the crown court i think _ describe that as a mess. the crown court i think has _ describe that as a mess. the crown court i think has been _ describe that as a mess. the crown court i think has been working i describe that as a mess. the crown court i think has been working very| court i think has been working very hard to try to...

Led critics of the government like nigel garage to say they have rushed claims. —— nigel garage. yellow, the number of withdrawing cases, that is at a record high. it includes people to not pursue their case but also includes the home office deciding to take out all of the system for things like missing applications or not keeping in touch with the home office. finally, have a look at this 0ffice. finally, have a look at this quote from the home offices released today. it says... that often ...

Good morning, welcome to breakfast with sarah campbell and jon kay. 0ur headlines today. routine school inspections wont take place for the next couple of weeks, while 0fsted assessors are given more training in protecting the wellbeing of teachers and staff. at least 30 people are now known to have been killed in an earthquake injapan, as rescuers battle to find any survivors trapped in the rubble. the home office says its cleared a backlog of tens of thousands of asylum claims, but critics are...