Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2018 to Question 121751, on immigration: appeals, how many initial decisions are (a) not appealed and (b) overturned on appeal; and what the cost of unsuccessful appeals has been to the public purse in each year since 2015.

The Home Office published data on initial decisions can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017 while Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service data on appeals can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017

Information on the cost to the Home Office of unsuccessful appeals in each year since 2015 is not centrally held and can only be provided at disproportionate cost through the examination of individual case records.