While planning for Bicester was going on, applications for asylum had halved in the year to September 2003
15 Meanwhile the number of applications to the UK for asylum halved between October 2002 and September 2003, due to a range of statutory and non-statutory measures to reduce the number of applications, and to wider trends in asylum flows (see Figure 2).
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Modelling the effects of intake reduction measures on the number of asylum applications, October 2002 to March 2004 |
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The Home Office has modelled the combined effects of various measures on the number of asylum applications.
Source: National Audit Office analysis of asylum intake reduction model |
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