Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average duration of appeal proceedings was against first instance decisions on asylum applications for (a) Syrian, (b) Afghan and (c) Iraqi in the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The average clearance time, from receipt to disposal, of an asylum appeal in the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber, over the last 12 months for which data are available
(1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019), was:
All nationalities | 29 weeks |
Syrian nationals | 34 weeks |
Afghan nationals | 31 weeks |
Iraqi nationals | 20 weeks |
These figures are from internal management information extracted from the tribunal’s case management system. They do not form part of the published statistics.
Tribunal statistics are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
HM Courts & Tribunals Service has worked extensively to reduce the outstanding caseload and improve timeliness in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has seen the live caseload in the First-tier Tribunal reduce by more than two-thirds, from 64,800 to 20,300 between July 2016 and September 2019. The average duration across all case types has also improved from 52 weeks in the period July to September 2017 to 34 weeks in the period July to September 2019.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average duration of appeal proceedings on first instance decisions on asylum applications was in the last twelve months for which data is available.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The average clearance time, from receipt to disposal, of an asylum appeal in the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber, over the last 12 months for which data are available
(1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019), was:
All nationalities | 29 weeks |
Syrian nationals | 34 weeks |
Afghan nationals | 31 weeks |
Iraqi nationals | 20 weeks |
These figures are from internal management information extracted from the tribunal’s case management system. They do not form part of the published statistics.
Tribunal statistics are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
HM Courts & Tribunals Service has worked extensively to reduce the outstanding caseload and improve timeliness in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has seen the live caseload in the First-tier Tribunal reduce by more than two-thirds, from 64,800 to 20,300 between July 2016 and September 2019. The average duration across all case types has also improved from 52 weeks in the period July to September 2017 to 34 weeks in the period July to September 2019.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for legal assistance by asylum applicants during the first instance procedure were granted in 2019.
Answered by Wendy Morton
Information on the total number requests for this type of legal assistance is not held. Such assistance when provided by legal aid is funded under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme, where the decision on whether or not to grant funding is taken by the legal aid provider, and hence refusals are not reported to the Legal Aid Agency.
The data on the number of grants of this type of legal aid in 2019 is not available, as this is not broken down to the level of detail required until a claim for payment is submitted.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for legal assistance were made by asylum applicants during the first instance procedure in 2019.
Answered by Wendy Morton
Information on the total number requests for this type of legal assistance is not held. Such assistance when provided by legal aid is funded under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme, where the decision on whether or not to grant funding is taken by the legal aid provider, and hence refusals are not reported to the Legal Aid Agency.
The data on the number of grants of this type of legal aid in 2019 is not available, as this is not broken down to the level of detail required until a claim for payment is submitted.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests were made for legal assistance by asylum applicants during the first instance procedure by (a) regular, (b) accelerated, (c) border and (d) Dublin procedures in 2019.
Answered by Wendy Morton
Information on the total number requests for this type of legal assistance is not held. Such assistance when provided by legal aid is funded under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme, where the decision on whether or not to grant funding is taken by the legal aid provider, and hence refusals are not reported to the Legal Aid Agency.
The data on the number of grants of this type of legal aid in 2019 is not available, as this is not broken down to the level of detail required until a claim for payment is submitted.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were released from prison on each day from 17 December 2018 to 31 December 2018; and how many of those people were recalled to prison within one month of release.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
A total of 2,853 prisoners were released from prison between 17 December 2018 and 31 December 2018 inclusive. Of these, 325 individuals had a licence recall within one month (31 days) of release although not all would have been apprehended by the Police and returned to prison custody within that timeframe.
Public protection is our priority. Offenders on licence are subject to strict licence conditions and supervision and are liable to be recalled to custody where they breach their licence conditions.
The figures detailed in the answer have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Asked by: Bambos Charalambous (Labour - Enfield, Southgate)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are due for release from prison on each day from 20 December 2019 to 3 January 2020.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The release data for December 2019 is planned for publication in April 2020. The publication in July 2020 will include the data for January 2020.
It is not possible to state the number of future releases by date because of the many factors affecting release date that can take place following sentence, such as added days awarded on prison disciplinary hearings, time spent unlawfully at large after escapes/absconds, appeals against the sentence, and further sentences imposed concurrently or consecutively.