Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Nick Raynsford Excerpts
Monday 28th October 2013

(11 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Extremely briefly now. I call Mr Nick Raynsford.

Nick Raynsford Portrait Mr Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich) (Lab)
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The Minister for Immigration will be well aware that I have had to draw his attention to unreasonably long delays in implementing tribunal decisions which have reversed Home Office refusals in individual cases. When will he put an end to the scandal of people waiting six months or, in some cases, more than a year for legally binding decisions to be implemented by his Department?

Mark Harper Portrait Mr Harper
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The right hon. Gentleman is quite right: he has drawn some of those cases to my attention. Sometimes, when tribunals make rulings that require a change in policy, it is important to get that policy right to make sure that we can implement the tribunals’ decisions in the way they intended. If the right hon. Gentleman has any further cases, which he seemed to have, will he please get in touch with me and I will be happy to take those up for him.