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Asked for a reaction to the Select Committee report on Asylum, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister’s response had already been released to the news wires. However to summarise, we recognised that there were improvements still being made. First and foremost people should note that this was a report about the situation 2 years ago, not about now. A lot had happened in those 2 years. There was not one single factor, but you could look at how we had reduced the "pull factor"; how we were dealing with 80% of applications within 2 months; the introduction of bio-metrics; how we had tightened the system with measures mentioned in the report such as electronic tagging; the development of memoranda of understanding with other countries, then you could see that each step along the way the system was being tightened and the number of applications last year was fewer then at any year since 1994.

That should give some idea of the progress which was being made. Put to him that some of that reduction could be accounted for by Accession countries joining the EU, the PMOS said that whilst Eastern Europe was a factor, but the economy needed people from Eastern Europe in any case, so that was another part of it. Equally if you took issues such as Zimbabwe they had increased problems as well.

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nd lock them in detention centers as if they commeted the worse crime.
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