Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

An analysis of the asylum system

Status: Open Opened: 12 Dec 2025

In December 2024, government committed to “restore order to the asylum and immigration system,” with a number of interventions and changes to policy including the UK-France treaty targeting illegal crossings and the pilot ‘one in, one out’ scheme enabling returns of failed asylum seekers. Almost 110,000 people claimed asylum in the year to March 2025, …

Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
19 Jan 2026 Dr Jo Farrar · Ministry of Justice, Dr Rannia Leontaridi OBE · Home Office, Emma Churchill · Ministry of Justice, Josh Goodman · Office for Local Government, Simon Ridley CB · Home Office View ↗

Correspondence

2 letters
DateDirectionTitle
2 Mar 2026 To cttee Letter from the Acting Permanent Secretary at the Home Office relating to the C…
23 Feb 2026 To cttee Letter from the Second Permanent Secretary at the Home Office relating to a fol…