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Asylum and migration: A review of Home Office statistics
Author(s) -
Langham Alison
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2005.00098.x
Subject(s) - headline , audit , criticism , official statistics , work (physics) , statistics , history , political science , business , engineering , law , advertising , accounting , mathematics , mechanical engineering
Asylum applications to the UK have been a headline‐grabbing topic. Against a background of much criticism in the media of its handling of the statistics, the Home Office asked the National Audit Office (NAO) in April 2004 to examine the reliability of its quarterly asylum statistics. Alison Langham reports on the NAO's work.