HC Deb 27 January 2000 vol 343 cc243-5W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library the figures for the analysis of the work of the Integrated Casework Directorate which he placed in the Library in graph form as part of his answer of 13 December 2000,Official Report, column 1W, on the Integrated Casework

Mrs. Roche

Passport applications can already be made at the public counters of individual passport offices. All the Passport Agency's public counter areas also have a stock of application forms, available to customers.

Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to introduce a tiered service for passport applicants of the kind outlined by the Chief Executive of the Passport Agency on pages 2 and 3 of "A Blueprint for the Future". [107071]

Mrs. Roche

Subject to the results of market research the Passport Agency plans to introduce, by early 2001, a fast track service for people applying through the Passport Agency's partners and at counters, and a premium service, for counter service callers only, to meet urgent travel requirements.

Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the level of productivity of the Passport Agency's PASS system will match that of the PIMIS system. [107075]

Mrs. Roche

Passport Application Support System (PASS) productivity should match that of the Passport Issuing and Management Information System (PIMIS) by this summer.

Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a version of the table showing the Passport Agency's income and expenditure printed in page 19, paragraph 5.3 of the Agency's current corporate and business plan which takes account of the income and expenditure relating to the proposed new Passport Office in Durham. [107076]

Mrs. Roche

The table showing the Passport Agency's income and expenditure which is printed in page 19, paragraph 5.3 of the Agency's Corporate and Business plans 1999–02 already takes account of the income and expenditure relating to the proposed new passport office in Durham.

Directive; and if he will update those figures to the present date. [107091]

Mrs. Roche

I have placed in the Library a table giving a breakdown of the weekly output of the Integrated Casework Directorate (ICD) in the four categories against which the recovery of the LCD's business would be measured in the first instance, from 1 January 1999 to the week ending 14 January 2000.

ICD—overall BMA output 1999–2000
January February March
BMA category 1998 1 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19 26 5 12
a General/Settlement casework 4,100 52 494 856 805 981 1,288 1,926 2,141 2,563 3,272 3,030
c Asylum 1st Decisions 650 0 25 142 159 192 230 246 173 228 185 362
d Asylum Appeals despatched to I.A.A 250 0 0 37 59 59 91 127 126 118 143 134
h European 250 0 0 26 23 35 45 115 95 156 197 222
Total 5,250 52 519 1,061 1,046 1,267 1,654 2,414 2,535 3,065 3,797 3,748
March April May June
20 27 3 10 17 24 1 8 15 22 29 5
a General/Settlement casework 2,801 4,068 3,150 2,769 3,550 4,150 3,471 3,028 3,474 4,133 4,020 3,400
c Asylum 1st Decisions 250 226 268 284 351 575 557 400 964 1,013 1,072 1,014
d Asylum Appeals despatched to I.A.A 180 178 75 134 130 143 140 184 201 178 241 193
h European 179 187 272 165 213 239 122 140 292 247 185 86
Total 3,410 4,659 3,765 3,352 4,244 5,107 4,290 3,752 4,931 5,571 5,518 4,693
June July August
12 19 26 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 21 28
a General/Settlement casework 3,521 3,252 4,611 3,539 3,686 3,153 4,020 3,602 2,955 3,847 4,643 4,607
c Asylum 1st Decisions 1,091 1,141 860 1,066 655 451 652 685 833 711 807 710
d Asylum Appeals despatched to I.A.A 231 260 253 269 243 262 290 254 215 164 153 102
h European 94 168 117 313 341 562 734 599 399 411 404 191
Total 4,937 4,821 5,841 5,187 4,925 4,428 5,696 5,140 4,402 5,133 6,007 5,610
September October November
4 10 17 24 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19
a General/Settlement casework 4,093 4,366 5,772 4,387 5,519 5,422 5,624 6,616 4,894 6,029 5,256 5,969
c Asylum 1st Decisions 690 587 607 493 687 592 628 565 567 554 469 615
d Asylum Appeals despatched to I.A.A 158 186 224 250 146 163 176 118 142 87 135 128
h European 162 115 99 177 133 128 161 67 158 140 165 228
Total 5,103 5,254 6,702 5,307 6,485 6,305 6,589 7,366 5,761 6,810 6,025 6,940
Nov. December January
25 3 10 17 24 31 7 14
a General/Settlement casework 6,105 5,790 6,021 5,059 1,526 3,280 3,831 5,759
c Asylum 1st Decisions 620 681 525 638 95 523 547 870
d Asylum Appeals despatched to I.A.A 146 135 125 142 132 31 109 110
h European 280 206 222 237 0 7 108 202
Total 7,151 6,812 6,893 6,076 1,753 3,841 4,595 6,941
1 Agreed average