Rishi Sunak asked to correct asylum figures error

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Rishi Sunak asked to correct asylum figures error

But the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, Sir Robert Chote, said: “Given the data quality issues at that time, it would not be reasonable to suggest that this management information from the UK Border Agency accurately represented half a million genuine undecided asylum applications then in the backlog.” www.bbc.co.uk

But the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, Sir Robert Chote, said: “Given the data quality issues at that time, it would not be reasonable to suggest that this management information from the UK Border Agency accurately represented half a million genuine undecided asylum applications then in the backlog.”

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