Government 5-year plan

This briefing outlines the main asylum features of the Government’s five-year strategy for asylum and immigration, published on 7th February 2005, and the concerns of the Refugee Council. Despite three major pieces of asylum legislation since coming into office, the Government has announced more far-reaching measures, which have serious implications for the future of asylum in the UK.

The strategy contains measures to toughen the UK’s borders, fast-track applications, and to control and detain asylum seekers without addressing the more fundamental issues of poor quality decision-making nor does it look at how the Government will tackle the public’s fears on asylum and immigration by challenging myths.

Published in February 2005

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