§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many asylum appeal cases were awaiting a hearing on 1 April. [118492]
§ Jane KennedyAt the end of March 2000 there were no arrears of work before the adjudicators. All the cases in the system (some 3,500 at the end of February) were at the appropriate stage of preparation for hearing or promulgation of the decision.
At the end of February, the Immigration Appeal Tribunal had 2,000 cases awaiting hearing. By the end of April all backlog cases which were awaiting a hearing date will have been heard and all new cases will be listed for hearing within five weeks.