News 11 Jun 2026 Signage for the Home Office in Westminster. Photo Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire Flora Thompson and Ian Jones, Press Association The UK asylum appeals backlog has hit a new record high and is now more than seven times the level it was a decade ago, figures show. There were 87,450 cases in the system at the end of March, up 72% from 50,976 a year earlier. It stood at 11,660 in the same period in 2016, when current records began.