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Asylum

Answer

The UK Border Agency have interpreted the question as asking for the number of asylum applications which were made before 1 March 2009 and which have been neither granted, withdrawn, are successful at appeal or removed. This would include applications made both to the New Asylum model (NAM) and cases within the CRD legacy.The number of outstanding asylum applications which were made since the introduction of the new Asylum model (NAM) in 2006 and prior to 1 March 2009 is contained in the following table:

	Number of asylum applications¹	Number of cases yet to reach conclusion²
2006	23,610	—
2007	23,430	—
2008	24,700	—
2009	24,250	—
Total	95,990	40,640
¹ Numbers for Asylum Applications are from migration statistics published stats.
² Please note that figures quoted are internal management information only and are subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. This figure is the total number of unconcluded out of service standard cases. Cases within a six month period are considered in standard and therefore considered as work in progress, they are not considered to be outstanding applications.

The above figure (40,640) does not include cases being dealt with by the Case Resolution Directorate (CRD)¹."¹ This is because the Agency is unable to accurately report on these outstanding cases. As reported in February 2010 to the Home Affairs Select Committee, 52 per cent. of the concluded cases were data errors and required no further action. Therefore, any such report would be unable to accurately represent CRD cases with outstanding applications."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 c927-8W; 324517

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Asylum

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk