Whitehall’s spending watchdog has revealed the Home Secretary’s plans to remodel the asylum system could lead to “unintended consequences” which includes growing case backlogs and homelessness of people in need of refuge. According to the head of the National Audit Office, Gareth Davies, he noted that for the policies by Shabana Mahmood to succeed, it would require “effective action on the bottlenecks”. It was revealed in a report by the independent body that details of the population of how many asylum seekers are not receiving welfare and how many denied applicants have disappeared are unknown to the civil service. Auditors…
