35,000 fewer seek asylum.ASYLUM claims in the UK plummeted 40 per cent last year to just over 50,000. The Government will unveil the 35,000 drop tomorrow as proof that its clampdown clamp·down n. An imposing of restrictions or controls: "Advertisers and broadcasters would raise howls of protest against any strong clampdown" Wall Street Journal. is working. Home Secretary David Blunkett David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. Blind since birth and from a poor family, he rose to become Education Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and then Home Secretary from 2001 to said yesterday: "We are getting there in tackling the abuse of the asylum system." "Thanks to our hard- hitting laws, we have already halved the monthly rate of claims compared with the peak of 9,000 in October 2002." Just over 50,000 asylum applications were made in 2003, the Home Office will say. That is down from 85,000 in 2002. Mr Blunkett will tell MPs today that immigrants from the 10 countries joining the EU in May will face a two-year ban on claiming benefits. |
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