HC Deb 17 November 2003 vol 413 cc705-9W
Denzil Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals who had been refused political asylum were deported in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [137060]

Beverley Hughes

Deportations are a just one type of removal; others include: persons subject to administrative removal, removal due to illegal entry action or those refused entry at port and subsequently removed.

The table shows the number of asylum seekers who were removed from the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2002. These are steadily being increased.

Removals and voluntary departures1 of asylum applicants,

2000 to 20022

2000 2001 32002
Principal Applicants 8,980 9,285 10,740
Dependants4 N/a 1,495 3,170
1 Figures have been rounded to the nearest live.
2 Includes persons departing "voluntarily" after enforcement action has been initiated against them and persons leaving under the Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration, and removals on safe third country grounds.
3 Provisional data subject to change.
4 Data on dependants removed have been collected only since April 2001 onwards.
N/A—Not available

Information on asylum removals is published quarterly. The next publication will cover the third quarter (July to September) of 2003 and will be available from 27 November 2002 on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

Denzil Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals lost their appeals to the adjudicator against the refusal of political asylum in the last three years for which figures are available. [137061]

Beverley Hughes

The latest available data is given in the following tables. The tables show the outcomes of appeals determined by adjudicators of the Immigration Appellate Authority (IAA), further appeals to the

Asylum appeals determined by adjudicators of the Immigration Appellate Authority, excluding dependants12
Number of principal appellants
Allowed4 Dismissed4 Withdrawn4
Total determined3 Total Aspercentage

of total

determined

Total Aspercentage

of total

determined

Total As percentage

of total

determined

2000 19,395 3,340 17 15,580 80 475 2
2001 43,415 8,155 19 34,440 79 825 2
2002 64,405 13,875 22 48,845 76 1,685 3
2003
Q1 20,595 3,480 17 16,445 80 670 3
Q2 19,345 4,060 21 14,875 77 415 2
1Figures, other than percentages, rounded to the nearest 5. Numbers might not add up due to rounding.
2 Data for 2002 and 2003 are provisional.
3 Based on information supplied by the Department for Constitutional Affairs. Determinations do not necessarily relate to appeals received in the same period.
4 Based on data supplied from the Presenting Officers Unit within the Home Office.
Note:
Estimate. Figures rounded to the nearest hundred, and subject to later revision.

Further appeals to the Tribunal, decisions, and the outcome of

tribunal hearings, excluding dependants, 2000 to 20021

Number of principal appellants
Applications for leave to

appeal to the tribunal2

Appeal to the tribunal2
Applications Decisions Received Determined
2000 6,020 5,490 1,615 2,635
2001 15,540 13,540 3,860 3,190
2002(P) 25,600 22,825 6,920 5,565

Number of principal appellants
Outcome of Tribunal Hearings3
Appellant Secretary of State
Allowed Dismissed Withdrawn Allowed Dismissed Withdrawn
2000 650 1,225 185 170 165 35
2001 315 1,020 25 160 120 25
20024 410 1,880 210 215 130 15
1 Figures rounded to the nearest 5. Numbers might not add up due to rounding.
2 Figures based on data supplied by the Department for Constitutional Affairs. Decisions and determinations do not necessarily correspond to applications and appeals received in any given year. 3 Figures supplied by the Presenting Officers Unit. Figures for October—December 1999 are based on data for November-December.
4 Provisional figures.
Note:
Revised figures.

tribunal (including those brought by the Secretary of State), and applications for judicial review in the last three years. Only a proportion of those that are refused asylum lodge appeals, and the majority of appeals are dismissed.

Cases are determined according to their individual merits. The figures relate to numbers of cases; appeals determined by the IAA may relate to initial decisions made in previous years, and appeals determined by the IAT may relate to cases determined at the IAA made in previous years.

Number of principal appellants
Outcome of tribunal hearings3
Allowed Dismissed Withdrawn Remitted to

adjudicators

for further

consideration

2000 815 1,385 220 215
2001 475 1,140 150 1,430
20024 620 2,015 225 2,700

Applications for judicial review, and outcomes, excluding dependants, 1994 to 2002
Applications for leave to move for judicial review1
Applications Decisions2 of which

granted

leave to

move

Percentage of

applicants

granted leave to

move3

Total
20006 1,920 2,095 555 (26) 365
20016 2,210 2,300 290 (13) 260
20027 3,075 2,980 260 (9) 25

The outcome of judicial review hearings1
Allowed4 Dismissed6 Withdrawn
As percentage

of total

determined

Total As percentage

of total

determined

Total As percentage

of total

determined

20006 (48) 300 (40) 95 (12)
20016 (68) 60 (16) 60 (16)
20027 (30) 60 (67) 5 (3)

1 Figures based on Administrative Court data. Figures (other than percentages) rounded to the nearest 5 with. = 1 or 2.

2 Decisions do not relate to applications in any given period.

3 The number of which granted leave to move as a percentage of decisions.

4 The decision of the respondent (in this case, the Home Office or the Department for Constitutional Affairs) was quashed. These figures include consent orders where the JR was conceded by the respondent.

5 The decision of the respondent was upheld.

6 Figures exclude judicial reviews brought in cases relating to asylum support (NASS).

7 Provisional figures.

Figures on asylum appeals are published quarterly and are available on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate web site at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1. html