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.
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(1)(2)(3) Year Appeals received Total appeals determined Appeals allowed % appeals allowed Appeals dismissed Appeals withdrawn 2009 14,340 12,813 3,712 29% 8,627 474 2010 13,928 14,723 4,029 27% 10,061 633 2011 9,986 10,597 2,779 26% 7,139 679 2012 8,197 8,285 2,208 27% 5,472 605 2013 8,519 8,325 2,078 25% 5,681 566 (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 (3) Withdrawn figures include cases withdrawn by the Home Office, as well as those withdrawn by the appellant.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.