§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of outstanding cases for each month in 1989 and 1990 under the headings(a) naturalisation, (b) registration, (c) refugees, (d) asylum seekers and (e) general immigration work, and the numbers of new applications in each of those areas for each month.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe number of outstanding cases relates to casework in B1 and B4 divisions in the immigration and nationality department and is as follows:
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Nationality General immigration casework1 2 Asylum and related casework1 3 Naturalisation1 Registration1 March 41,154 84,438 43,011 6 April 43,855 81,068 39,995 6 May 46,109 85,112 36,629 9,548 June 52,318 86,452 34,782 9,678 July 59,226 73,689 33,806 9,645 August 64,193 78,365 30,475 10,091 September 63,877 70,858 29,204 11,067 October 65,925 68,700 30,520 11,650 November 64,924 59,765 30,774 12,767 December 64,930 55,239 30,678 13,539 1990 January 64,402 47,622 29,274 14,475 February 65,355 42,791 27,978 15,031 March 65,050 38,832 27,968 16,272 April 63,902 35,780 26,197 17,270 May 64,273 33,755 23,444 18,150 June 64,318 32,081 22,584 19,752 July 65,203 30,648 21,073 21,069 August 66,031 27,312 21,880 23,229 September 64,681 26,103 21,227 26,595 6 Not available. The number of new applications received is not available in the form requested, but the information which is available is as follows:
Intake Nationality General Immigration Asylum and related Naturalisation1 Registration1 Casework1 2 Casework1 4 1989 January 3,177 8,924 22,231 670 February 4,033 11,782 19,814 710 March 5,094 11,131 22,745 1,010 April 4,432 10,316 19,456 860 May 3,427 9,037 18,271 1,820 June 7,963 6,971 22,139 2,920 July 9,777 4,491 21,826 850 August 7,160 3,030 23,587 1,210 September 1,452 904 24,760 1,660 October 1,625 884 27,413 1,560 November 1,622 933 26,707 1,320 December 849 601 18,805 1,620 1990 January 1,515 830 23,545 1,550 February 1,586 972 21,935 1,220 March 1,485 843 26,612 1,330 April 629 540 21,337 1,300 May 1,589 767 23,285 1,230 June 1,457 1,276 24,681 1,820 July 2,714 1,144 26,459 1,750 August 1,408 553 25,759 2,640 September 2,033 1,001 25,536 3,060 1 Does not include applications received in the Department but which await allocation to caseworkers. 2 Includes referred entry clearance applications, and enquires submitted by letter, as well as variation of leave cases. Includes both general and Eastern European casework (the latter was absorbed into general casework in July 1990.) 3 These figures are a total of all work outstanding in the Refugee Unit. 4 Provisional figures. Those for 1990, particularly for recent months, understate because of delays in recording cases on the computer system.