HC Deb 17 May 1989 vol 153 cc189-90W
Mr. Darling

To ask the Attorney-General if, pursuant to his answer of 5 April,Official Report, column 185, he will list the total number of immigration appeals (a) lodged and (b) lodged and ready to proceed.

The Attorney-General

On 29 March, the most recent date for which figures are available, 14,186 appeals had been lodged with the immigration adjudicators and 465 applications for leave to appeal had been lodged with the immigration appeal tribunal. On that date, the total number of cases lodged and ready to proceed to a hearing(a) before the adjudicators was 2,627; and (b) before the tribunal was 262.

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