BBCNEWS BBC News at Ten June 4, 2024 22:25:00
To have abolished the backlog? this is how the home secretary, james cleverly, explains it. they have all been through that processing, they have all been dealt with in terms of getting through that, as i say, that adjudicating, initial adjudicating process. that is what we meant by addressing the backlog. we have done that, we have completed that. so, a distinction between claims processed and claims resolved. and we also know that a third of the legacy backlog asylum applications that have been processed were neither accepted nor rejected. 35,000, infact, were withdrawn or voided, often beca...