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This is just tinkering around the edges of the real problem. The HomeOffice is utterly shit and not fit for purpose. It needs root and branch reform and it needs bringing into the modern era. These gimmick policies from the Tories and now Labour won't do shit and will only waste money. Why the fuck is the HomeOffice incapable of processing applications quickly. That's what other countries do.
Well hang on - if you hand the problem of processing the applications off to a third party along with suitably constructed incentives and penalties to ensure fast and accurate processing in line with our actual rules on asylum, isn't that solving the problem rather than tinkering with it? The problem is blatantly that the government slow rolls the applications because a graph that shows an increase in asylum applications being granted is political suicide - and the home office follow their lead. Give it to a neutral third party and you can avoid looking like you're going easy on people whilst also doing a fast and effective job of assessing the claims
You maybe in to something but I don't have any faith in the HomeOffice absolving themselves of responsibility behind a third party contract which will, let's face it, not be as watertight as we would hope.