Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average wait for an immigration appeal tribunal is from time of decision to tribunal date in the most recent period for which figures are available.

HM Courts & tribunals service (HMCTS) does not hold data measuring the time from a Home Office decision.

HMCTS has worked extensively to reduce waiting times and in response to a higher level of receipts than forecast, increased the number of judicial sittings to deal with incoming receipts and reduce the live caseload. This has seen the live caseload nearly halve from 64,800 to 36,300 between June 2016 and March 2018 and the average waiting time has now begun to improve from 45 weeks in 2017 to 37 weeks in the period January to March 2018. Further improvement will follow.