Immigration Advisory Service

HC Deb 19 September 2003 vol 410 c1039W

Mr. Hancock

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs what free legal representation will be available to those refused visas by overseas posts when funding is withdrawn from the Immigration Advisory Service. [128327]

Mr. Lammy

The terms of the contract that will be awarded to the Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) following the transfer of funding from the Home Office to the Legal Services Commission have yet to be finalised. Ministers will write to the IAS in the near future, once the position is clearer.

Expenditure for each judge's lodgings, for the years 1999–2003 inclusive
Lodging	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03
Birmingham	356,736.17	405,865.43	415,705.55	432,874.74
Leicester	40,964.94	50,432.89	44,928.71	91,569.11
Lincoln	35,075.36	39,000.34	38,385.96	42,885.14
Northampton	25,031.50	18,109.32	30,622.87	17,472.17
Nottingham	189,056.39	218,144.54	246,113.20	250,807.08
Stafford	104,226.10	137,966.93	88,366.49	99,057.55
Warwick	9,792.75	235.00	4,827.92	0
Worcester	24,001.84	33,214.04	55,280.08	31,991.60
Leeds	289,833.69	376,933.30	316,445.18	319,626.98
Plawsworth	331,201.69	430,176.19	326,003.36	305,022.17
Sheffield	322,359.72	291,088.99	242,090.17	256,479.49
Temporary judge's lodgings (Hull)	0.00	14,112.24	27,053.68	12,515.76
Carlisle	35,784.61	34,554.58	31,239.93	22,821.63
Liverpool	291,920.72	233,721.22	274,731.19	235,575.37
Manchester	340,661.18	448,365.96	382,005.97	339,810.76
Preston	213,045.95	214,021.46	223,802.25	225,748.93
Chelmsford	105,494.41	107,853.64	114,388.17	138,508.71
Lewes	142,912.21	178,327.11	159,481.23	147,923.35
Temporary judge's lodgings (Lewes)	0	0	0	22,192.13
Maidstone	185,689.18	224,916.27	206,906.43	188,572.83
Norwich	124,637.02	186,917.83	152,954.05	149,283.82
Oxford	59,168.85	42,878.64	38,768.96	33,449.34
Reading	112,420.32	123,004.54	182,071.19	169,882.14
St. Albans	216,451.08	291,011.19	224,267.65	258,149.67
Caernarfon	13,771.03	14,652.72	21,989.96	10,482.15
Cardiff	235,173.88	317,177.84	286,408.24	235,232.72
Chester	197,999.40	268,956.26	234,009.87	202,777.96
Mold	46,604.57	48,145.87	67,136.40	0
Swansea	182,186.78	213,549.28	199,587.93	177,590.17
Bristol	213,888.24	213,776.82	209,010.69	242,817.41
Exeter	46,945.43	39,512.79	64,960.49	65,923.56
Plymouth	16,856.05	17,628.52	15,537.34	18,527.92
Truro	19,967.87	19,647.59	20,637.26	14,123.77
Winchester	255,824.13	301,791.48	325,776.83	295,237.96
	4,785,683.07	5,555,690.83	5,271.495.20	5,054,934.09