BBCNEWS BBC News at Ten June 4, 2024 22:08:00
The numbers to population, the uk is 19th in europe in terms of the impact. cyprus receives the most applications, and even bulgaria proportionally gets twice as many as the uk. the biggest challenge i think in the uk system at the moment is that there just doesn't seem to be enough processing capacity to make decisions on people's applications. we know that asylum application numbers go up and down so part of the job of government is to put in place resources to deal with that. because at the moment, we have a big backlog building up of people who are waiting over a year in most cases, someti...