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May, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure but i believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry. Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself and senator ron johnson was there and the target defair joe pennington. And we talked a little bit this morning but the president Zelensky Inauguration came together rather quickly. It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. And there is discussion about whether the Vice President would be able to lead that effort and as it turned out he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. And mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposition that aid does, in fact, get held up from time to time for
Zelenskys inauguration in may, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure. I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry . Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, senator ron johnson was there and also the charge daffaires at the u. S. Embassy at the time, joe pennington. We talked a little bit this morning, but president zelenskys inauguration came together rather quickly . It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. Theres been some discussion whether the Vice President was going to be able to lead that effort and as it turned out he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. And mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the
Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposi
backlog, numberten 2022 when he talked about the backlog, number ten said he was referring to all cases before the 28th ofjune 2022 at the home secretary said this morning they had all been processed so the government had fulfilled this promise but it is complicated. we think the government has gone too far in claiming that the backlog of older cases has gone completely. have a look at this. this is the number of cases submitted before the 28th ofjune 2022 when rishi sunak made a pledge in december you can see there were around 92,000 still to be processed and there is no doubt the government has brought this down quite significantly with big falls particularly towards the end of the year but then have a look at this. december. there are still 4500 cases left in the government says these have been looked at but more work needs to be done but what is clear from this, the home office s own figures, there are still some cases
ofjune 2022. now, the home secretary said this morning they had all been processed, so the government had fulfilled this promise. but it s complicated, and we think the government is going too far in claiming that the backlog of older cases has gone completely. have a look at this. this is the number of cases submitted before the 28th ofjune 2022. when rishi sunak made the pledge in december, you can see there were around 92,000 still to be processed. there s no doubt that the government has brought this down quite significantly. there are big falls, particularly towards the end of the year. but then have a look at this december. there are still 4,500 cases left. the government says these have been looked at, but more work needs to be done. but what s clear from this, from the home office s own figures, that there are still some cases in the older asylum backlog. it s not gone entirely.