Though that middle figure looks wrong to me. 34% of workers aren't on UC - instead, 34% of people on UC are in work

…picking back up with some news from this week 👇

The Home Affairs Select Committee has just published its report on asylum accommodation – and I’m pleased to see many of IPPR’s recommendations reflected in it.

The report reflects a number of @ippr.org recommendations:

- Proposes setting performance measures for safeguarding in the contracts.

- Argues for more consistent approach to applying financial penalties on providers.

- Notes benefits of a more localised approach to managing asylum accommodation.

It finds:

- In previous parliament, Home Office neglected day to day management of contracts and allowed costs to spiral.

- Major safeguarding failings in asylum accommodation.

- Private providers incentivised to use hotels.

- Accommodation still often concentrated in areas of high deprivation.

I also interpreted it this way. He seemed to suggest that the policy on barring people with ILR from benefits would make retrospective removal of ILR unnecessary. But not very clear as seemed to want to acknowledge policy was ‘updated’ while also simultaneously signalling toughness

This suggests that, aside from small boat arrivals, the post-Brexit immigration regime on work and study has driven a significant part of the increase in asylum applications in recent years.

We could, however, see a fall as reforms in immigration white paper are rolled out.

The increase in people applying who arrived on visas seems to have coincided with the post-Brexit immigration system and the rise in net migration.

There has been a sharp rise in asylum applicants from people formerly on study and work visas. (Barely anyone applied from work visas before 2022)

There are quite sharp differences in the nationalities of people applying via these routes, as is clear from the chart below.

I guess new trade costs elsewhere could encourage a shift to these services. (And if graduate route is seen as a direct result of Brexit, this helped increase education exports!)

Not sure there’s much evidence that UK services exports have performed better *as a result of* Brexit?