HC Deb 02 December 1999 vol 340 cc282-3W
Mr. Hope

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to make available the latest revisions of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's country assessments. [101473]

Mrs. Roche

Revised country assessments were made available to caseworkers during September 1999. They will be made publicly available on the Home Office internet site within the next few weeks and copies have been placed in the Library. The assessments are all sourced to information obtained from independent external sources and from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

A list of the countries for which assessments are prepared was previously set out in a reply from my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department to my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Twigg) on 13 May 1998, Official Report, columns 127–28W. They are revised at six-monthly intervals, previously in March and September. The schedule will change to April and October from 2000.