Video: UK to cut asylum backlog, saving £1 bn a year: finance minister
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UK to cut asylum backlog, saving £1 bn a year: finance minister
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves says the UK will cut its backlog in asylum applications and end "the costly use of hotels to house asylum seekers", saving £1 billion ($1.3 billion) annually. "Funding that I have provided today, including from the transformation fund, will cut the asylum backlog, hear more appeal cases and return people who have no right to be here, saving the taxpayer a billion pounds a year," she tells lawmakers while presenting her spending review to parliament. SOUNDBITE