Home Office says only half of UK asylum decisions meet its quality standards

Only half of the Home Office’s recent asylum decisions have met its own internal quality checks. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Only half of the Home Office’s recent asylum decisions have met its own internal quality checks, significantly fewer than before Rishi Sunak’s push to clear a backlog of old claims.

Civil servants and lawyers say errors and omissions are also driving a huge increase in costly legal challenges, with more than 9,300 appeals lodged between this April and June.