Asylum

(asked on 17th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum application decisions were overturned on appeal in each of the last five years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 25th November 2014

The table below shows the number of asylum appeal applications and determinations in each of the last five years.

Asylum appeal applications and determinations, 2009 to 2013 (1)(2)(3)
YearAppeals receivedTotal appeals determinedAppeals allowed% appeals allowedAppeals dismissedAppeals withdrawn
200914,34012,8133,71229%8,627474
201013,92814,7234,02927%10,061633
20119,98610,5972,77926%7,139679
20128,1978,2852,20827%5,472605
20138,5198,3252,07825%5,681566
(1) Figures for 2013 are provisional.
(2) HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) (formerly the Tribunals Service Immigration and Asylum (TSIA)), consists of the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber (FTTIAC and UTIAC). This replaced the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) on 15 February 2010. All figures for appeals determined are cases dealt with by Immigration Judges at the AIT or FTTIAC.
(3) Withdrawn figures include cases withdrawn by the Home Office, as well as those withdrawn by the appellant.


These figures are regularly published in the quarterly and annual statistics on asylum appeal applications and determinations, within Immigration Statistics: April – June 2014, published by the Home Office on the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.

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