§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs whether it is the policy of his Department to use fair trade products, as a matter of course, in(a) sales on Departmental premises and (b) receptions and meetings involving staff and visitors. [142804]
§ Mr. LeslieCatering services to meet my Department's requirements are provided through contractual arrangements with specialist suppliers.
My Department will continue to take every opportunity to encourage the use of fair trade products
1999 2000 2001 2002 20031 Receipts where the First Defendant was recorded as IAT/Adjudicator/IAA 848 740 1,276 1,773 1,396 Grants of permission made during the relevant calendar year where the First Defendant was recorded as IAT/Adjudicator/IAA 306 284 302 290 252 1 to end November. Notes:
1. Cases are recorded in the Administrative Court Office database by defendant and only those cases in which the first defendant is recorded as the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, Adjudicator or Immigration Appellate Authority have been included.
2. These figures do not include any case in which the Secretary of State for the Home Department is recorded as the first defendant.
3. The figures for grants reflect decisions made in the calendar year. To identify the decisions in each of the cases received in the calendar years in question (a total of 6,033) would involve an audit on a case-by-case basis. Such an exercise would be labour intensive and would take several weeks.
It should be noted that due to the way in which details of cases were entered in the Administrative Court Office database prior to 2002, the above figures should not be regarded as providing a precise record of the applications received and granted.
§ Ross CranstonTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, in each of the last five years, how many cases were decided by immigration adjudicators; how many and what percentage of such cases were appealed to immigration
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Case decided by adjudicators 38,117 28,600 27,134 56,813 84,259 Number of cases applying for permission to appeal to the tribunal 14,356 11,142 7,365 18,046 28,945 Number of substantive appeals to the tribunal 2,331 2,870 2,061 4,437 7,687 Number of substantive tribunal appeals decided 1,841 2,619 3,568 3,867 6,564 Percentage of tribunal appeals allowed Not held Not held Not held 18% 16% Percentage of tribunal appeals remitted Not held Not held Not held 45% 44% Information on the number of appeals which are subsequently allowed by an immigration adjudicator following a remittal is not available without incurring disproportionate costs.