United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) Updates

UK government must immediately close Wethersfield mass containment site for asylum seekers A new report released by MSF shows how people staying in Wethersfield mass containment site in the UK are...

Kieran Killington, Nicky Longley, Katherine Bowers, Humayra Chowdhury, Paola Cinardo, Laura Nabarro & Sarah Eisen BMC Global and Public Health volume 3, Article number: 45 (2025) Cite this article ...

As first reported by The Times newspaper, 107 leaders of NGOs and refugee charities from across the UK, including Refugee Council, Refugee Action, Care International UK, Choose Love, the ONE...

by Laura Chappell Sam Hughes and Ian Mitchell This brief is co-published with the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The IPPR version is available here. Summary Following the recently...

Children at Risk in ‘Deeply Flawed’ System Hundreds of highly vulnerable refugee children continue to be at risk of abuse, neglect and criminalisation as a result of a ‘deeply flawed’ system which...

Responding to immigration and asylum statistics released on 27th February 2025, Enver Solomon, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council, said: We are living in an increasingly unstable world, where...

The UK protects people from catastrophic healthcare costs but patients still face long hospital waits while access to primary care appointments has worsened WHO/Europe and the European Observatory on...

In July, the UK government announced the end to the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership and the resumption of asylum processing, including for those previously subject to removal...

Today, Tuesday 7 January, the Minister for Development Anneliese Dodds gave evidence to Parliament's International Development Committee on the development work of the FCDO. Sir Philip Barton,...

By Ian Mitchell and Sam Hughes In-donor refugee costs—the cost of supporting refugees and asylum seekers within the UK—now account for almost 30 percent of the UK’s entire foreign aid budget. In the...

Refugee Council calls for decisive action as record number of Channel deaths reached in 2024 2024 was the deadliest year on record for Channel crossings, with at least 69 deaths reported. UK...

MSF is concerned about yesterday’s announcement from the UK Government which confirmed a reduction in the UK’s aid budget for the next two years. UK aid will drop from 0.58% in 2023 to 0.5% of GNI...

Responding to the news about several people, including a child, losing their lives in an attempted Channel crossing on Friday night, Enver Solomon, CEO of the Refugee Council, said: “This is yet...

New Government Should Guarantee Safe Routes, Humane Policies Emilie McDonnell Officer, UK Advocacy and Communications Last week, the United Kingdom home secretary convened a summit with ministers,...

Today the IFS has released a report on the Home Office budgeting and asylum overspends, finding that the Home Office has repeatedly spent far more than budgeted for asylum, border, visa and passport...

Since November 2023, Doctors of the World, in partnership with MSF UK have been providing medical services to men seeking asylum held at Wethersfield through a mobile clinic stationed outside the...

Today, Tuesday 23 July, Bond, the UK network for civil society organisations working in international development, has released its first annual UK civic space review. Under mounting pressure, civic...

GENEVA (10 July 2024) – Independent human rights experts* today welcomed the decision by the newly elected UK Government to scrap the policy to transfer asylum seekers who meet certain conditions to...