Asylum

(asked on 11th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum decisions identified as critically flawed in her Department's Quality Audit in the last 12 months were (a) reconsidered by officials as a consequence of that finding, (b) overturned as a result of that reconsideration and (c) overturned on appeal.


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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 20th January 2016

In the twelve months to September 2015 a total of 29,246 asylum decisions were made. Over the same period, 4 asylum decisions were identified as critically flawed by the Department’s Quality Audit team of which;

a) all were reviewed as a result of the assessment,

b) 3 were overturned as a result of that reconsideration and;

c) none have to date been overturned at appeal.

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