HC Deb 15 February 1996 vol 271 cc706-7W
Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures he has taken to remove Nigerian nationals from the short procedure, introduced last May, for deciding asylum cases likely to prove unfounded; and if he will make a statement. [15351]

Miss Widdecombe

The short procedure operates within existing legislation and has never been confined to countries which are candidates for designation under clause 1 of the Asylum and Immigration Bill. Individual applications which on examination are unsuitable for the short procedure are removed from it.