Claim: There are 6,000 fewer people in the caseload of the asylum backlog.
Fact-check: No evidence to support Rishi Sunak's asylum backlog claim - Full Fact
Verdict: the latest published data, for december 2022, shows that in total there were over 17,000 more people waiting for applications to be resolved than in september. it's possible the number of 'legacy' unresolved cases opened before 28 june 2022 has fallen by 6,000, but we've not found any published data to show this.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2023-03-10T00:00:00