Written question asked by Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat) on Friday, 15 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 19 January 2010. It was answered by Phil Woolas (Labour) on Monday, 8 March 2010 on behalf of the Home Office.

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of completed applications for representation on form EEA1 were dealt with within service standards in each month since January 2009.

Answer: The percentage (rounded to the nearest whole number) of complete EEA applications decided within the service standard for each month since January 2009 was as follows:"January 2009: 5 per cent.""February 2009: 4 per cent.""March 2009: 4 per cent.""April 2009: 12 per cent.""May 2009: 33 per cent.""June 2009: 91 per cent.""July 2009: 82 per cent.""August 2: 79 per cent.""September 2009: 33 per cent.""October 2009: 46 per cent.""November 2009: 46 per cent.""December 2009: 56 per cent."Please note that these are not national statistics.It should be noted that UKBA's Case Information Database does not differentiate between single EEA1 applications and those linked to a related EEA2 (family member) application, the figures above include all linked EEA2 cases.

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