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Dan Peters 12 June 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Full dispersal asylum targets still in draft

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Ministers have not signed off the Government’s 2024 targets for identifying an extra 100,000 bedspaces for asylum seekers this year, The MJ can reveal.

Home Office officials had suggested politicians had approved the figures but it has now emerged the plans are still in draft form.

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Skills Pipelines: What local government needs to know

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