Immigration - wanting some stats

[ITSJUSTBRIDGET]

I’m so so sick of the immigration media headlines

the attached shows the immigration backlog since 1990. I’m wanting to add in the number or home office immigration staff into the graph

how did we go from a low of around 3000 in 2005 to this years figure of 91,000

ive googled home office staff in 2010 which had a total of 28,423 staff

2010, the Home Office had a total of 2811 payroll staff. This figure represents the total number of employees within Additionally, the wider Home Office group included other agencies like the Criminal Records Bureau with 668 staff, the Identity & Passport Service with 3944 staff, and the UK Border Agency with 21752 staff.

At the end of March 2024, the Home Office employed over 51,000 people in a wide range of roles, across the UK and overseas

So to summarise 2010 there were around 28k staff with a backlog of around 4000 migrants/asylum seekers

today - we have a backlog of 91000 applications with a total number of home office staff at 51000

can anyone help me out with this logic?

TO BE VERY CLEAR, I AM NOT A EXTREME RIGHT WING VOTER, I’M FOCUSED ON WHY OUR GOVERNMENT HAS NOT/IS NOT SEEMINGLY ABLE TO DEAL WITH THE BACKLOG WHICH IS NOT FAIR ON ANYONE

You write a long post about something you’d heard 4 years ago

Obviously rather compelling to you

But yes… I’m guessing Reform

Wow. You got a lot of information about this chap, his work and his relationships from eavesdropping.

I am surprised he wasn't worried about revealing too much and straying into breaking the OSA.

I can imagine him having that sort of conversation in private over the dinner table at home, but not in public, loud enough to be overheard.

Getting back to the topic….yes, a dearth of statistics and facts will always create distrust and a vacuum that will be filled with rumour and speculation.

Not without cause. Donald Trump in America is firing statisticians and suppressing information that doesn’t support his agenda. He’s not the first leader with authoritarian tendencies to do this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/republicans-trump-bureau-of-labor-statistics-commissioner

Would you be willing to explain to me exactly what left you with that lasting impression? His comments?

Out of curiosity, what industry do you work in?

Oh of course it's bloody true! Honestly..how ridiculous to even suggest it isnt. Labour and the Conservatives before them are under huge political pressure to.clear the backlog. HR lawyers are slowing any attempt at deportation down massively thus preventing the backlog to be cleared. Far easier to just let them in.

Do you work at the HO?

what source of news do you refer to generally?

No. I'm.just a person with more than one brain cell. Sweet that you think it might not be true. I expect there aren't many of you that think like that.

Who would you vote for tomorrow if a GE was called @Lifeinthepit ?

What an irrelevant question! It's either true or it isn't. You don't know anything yourself although you may pretend to. All we can ask ourselves is "do we think a government might do something for political expediency?" And "Do we all trust Labour has the UKs best interests at heart?"

(Do we heck! 🤣.)

Relevance to the point in hand please?

Oh hang on...I see what you are ever so subtly trying to do. Lump people into opinion groups according to what box they might tick in an election and then extrapolate from there. Like some kind of really great political analyst 🤣🤣

Well, aren't you sweet!

We have had HO people on the thread. None of them have suggesting people are being "waved through" the asylum process.

If the last government and this have just "waved people through", there wouldn't be a backlog of 70k +

If the last government and this have just "waved people through" why are there around 50k appeals outstanding?

Most are no recourse to public funds so no benefits. They can use the NHS but pay a hefty surcharge for this - it’s not free. Dependents are entitled to schooling, but, most don’t have child dependents and of those that do, I can’t see how schooling (£6k a year ish) can cost more than the total they pay in taxes plus rent, travel, food, entertainment etc.

Er...they work for the HO!!🤣🤣🤣. They are marking their own homework! Do you think they would tell you the truth? Would they whistle-blow to mumsnet? Hardly. But again, sweet that you think that everyone tells the truth on mumsnet.

Oh and 70k backlog. I bet the real.backlog would be double that if they don't waive a fair few through.

Sweet Jesus

Why aren’t you happy to refer to source of your news?

Reform? Yes?

What's the source of your "news" that they aren't doing it? Independent verification please.

I didn’t realise Portugal was that low, I mean 10 compared to Spain at 50k. And Sweden seems low for some reason.

Missed Germany which is very high. The grant rates are incredibly varied.

So what you are saying is that you can be easily fooled if you are a labour voter and are happy to unquestioningly accept the party line that no waiving through is going on, but if you have the wit to question Labour propaganda you must.be a reform voter?

It isn’t true.

I can’t speak for anyone else on here because I don’t know what they do for a living or what their experience is. But I do do it for a living and I want to make it very clear to you that nobody is being ‘waved through’ or issued with grants of leave that they wouldn’t otherwise be entitled to, simply to clear a backlog. The concept is utterly ridiculous. To start with, if it were true, there wouldn’t be a sodding backlog, would there?

I'm.just a person with more than one brain cell I can see I’m not the only person who struggles with maths.

So you work in immigration. Have you signed the OSA? Or anything regarding professional confidentiality?

🤦🏻‍♀️ Oh my God, you think a relatively low level civil servant would go to the trouble of concealing some bizarre attempt to deceive the nation?

Why? What would be in it for me, exactly?Use of a highlighter in a colour of my choice maybe? Exclusive use of the best chair in the office? Or maybe a window seat?

You silly, silly woman.

Of course I have. We all sign it. And I’ve been very careful not to say anything that contravenes that in order to prove my point to you.

What it requires me to do is to maintain confidentiality. It doesn’t require me to lie or allow ridiculous conspiracy theories to stand unchallenged.