Britain agreed to take in more than eight times as many asylum seekers than it removed under the European Union’s resettlement scheme last year, new figures have revealed.
The UK tried to transfer 8,502 illegal migrants to other European countries last year, roughly the same number of people as those who crossed the Channel in small boats. Only 105 requests were accepted, with almost half being taken in by Germany.
Britain accepted 882 requests from EU member states to resettle asylum seekers in the UK.
Only 20 asylum seekers were returned to France under the Dublin III Regulation that governs which state is responsible for processing asylum applications, despite 8,417 migrants illegally crossing the Channel over the same period. Britain accepted more than ten times
