§ Mr. PondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will announce the increase in remuneration for the asylum support adjudicators for 2001–02. [160483]
§ Mr. StrawThe chief asylum support adjudicator's remuneration will be equivalent to grade 6.1 of the SSRB judicial scale, which for 2001–02 will be £99,420.
The asylum support adjudicators remuneration (and daily fees) will be increased by 3.7 per cent. in line with the recommendations of the Senior Salaries Review Body report No. 46, the twenty-third report on senior salaries (Cm 4995), which was presented to Parliament in February 2001.