UK to set up independent body to decide asylum appeals

A new independent body will be set up to speed up decision making on asylum appeal cases in the country and tackle a mounting backlog, the UK government has announced.

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The aim of the move laid out this week will be to overhaul the system to speed up decision-making on whether a refugee has the right to be granted asylum in the UK.

Official Home Office figures revealed a backlog of 106,000 cases waiting to be heard by the current system of First-Tier Tribunal, including at least 51,000 asylum appeals.