HL Deb 10 November 1999 vol 606 c1366

(". An asylum-seeker, and his dependants (if any), shall be eligible for any social security benefits to which they would have been entitled if neither Part VI of this Act or Schedule 1 to the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 had been in force, until such time as the Secretary of State has placed a report in the Library of the House of Commons giving details of the average process times in the determination of—

  1. (a) initial asylum decisions.; and
  2. (b) appeals to adjudicators against initial asylum decisions, and certifying that the average time from the lodging of the application for asylum to the determination of an adjudicator of the appeal against the, initial asylum decisions is less than six months.")