a higher number than the one the pm promised to reduce to zero. so, with thousands of the legacy group still in the system as well as all those new cases, can the government really claim to have abolished the backlog? this is how the home secretaryjames cleverly explains it. they ve all been through that processing. dealt with in terms of getting through that, as i say, that adjudicating, initial adjudicating process. that s what we meant by addressing the backlog. we have done that. we ve completed that. so a distinction being made between claims processed and claims resolved. and we also know that a third of the legacy backlog asylum applications processed were neither accepted nor rejected. 35,000 were withdrawn or voided often because the home office had lost contact with the claimant. the labour party says the government is massaging the numbers. rishi sunak s claim to havej cleared the asylum backlog
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legacy backlog asylum applications that have been processed were neither accepted nor rejected. 35,000, infact, were withdrawn or voided, often because the home office had lost contact with the claimant. the labour party says the government is cooking the books. rishi sunak s claim to have cleared the asylum backlog isjust totally false. in fact, the figures are nearly 100,000 cases and they haven t even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting.