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The statistics watchdog has found that the prime minister used incorrect figures when comparing the current asylum backlog to when Labour was in power.Sir Robert Chote, the chair of the UK Statistics Authority, has written to the immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, to point out the inaccuracy.The statements by ministers that you asked about do not reflect the position shown by the Home Office's statistics.

A Tory MP has been criticised for saying asylum-seeking children who have gone missing from Home Office hotels shouldn't have come here illegally in a heckle at prime minister's questions.A total of 200 children are still missing from the hotels, the government revealed following claims that youngsters had been abducted off the street outside one Brighton hotel.

Asylum seekers will be housed in the most basic accommodation possible, including disused army bases and possibly ships, to save money and to dissuade people from coming to the UK, the government has said.In a Commons statement setting out the next stage in the plans to prevent asylum claims in the UK, Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, said the plans would meet legal requirements to ensure those who arrived were not made destitute, but nothing more.

Ministers have unveiled plans to house thousands of asylum seekers in disused military bases to accommodate their essential living needs and nothing more despite legal threats from local Conservatives.Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, also announced he is continuing to explore the possibility of using ferries and barges to reduce the eye watering reliance on hotels.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Home Secretary Suella Braverman is expected to reveal within weeks whether progress has been made in finding alternatives to hotels to house asylum seekers.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Gary Lineker will be given a talking-to by the BBC following a tweet in which he appeared to compare the Tory government's attempted crackdown on small boats to Nazi Germany.

More cases of diphtheria among asylum seekers have been reported in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.The total number of cases for the year so far now stands at 67, figures published on Tuesday show.The UKHSA said five cases of diphtheria among asylum seekers were reported between December 12 and 18.

Asylum-seeking children have gone missing from Home Office hotels more than 400 times since July 2021, a minister has admitted.Robert Jenrick, minister for immigration, told the Commons on Tuesday that cases were being treated in exactly the same way as any young person who goes missing, but MPs raised concerns that nothing is happening to find those being kidnapped by gangs.

Robert Jenrick, Britain's minister of state for immigration, arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing street in London on Tuesday.Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP LONDON Opposition parties and children's advocates accused the U.K. government on Tuesday of putting vulnerable young people in danger, after authorities said scores of children who arrived in Britain as asylum-seekers have disappeared.

Image source, Social Media Ministers have backed efforts to strip a serial rapist police officer of his state-funded pension.David Carrick, 48, was sacked by the Metropolitan Police after he admitted dozens of rapes and sexual offences against 12 women over two decades.An application for his pension forfeiture will be considered by the Home Office.