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Written question asked by Alison Thewliss (Scottish National Party) on Thursday, 15 December 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 December 2016. It was answered by Phillip Lee (Conservative) on Friday, 23 December 2016 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Immigration: Appeals

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many First-tier immigration tribunals were lodged in each month since October 2015; and for each such month how many are outstanding.

Answer

We do everything we can to avoid unnecessary delay in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal, and have provided an additional 4,950 tribunal sitting days for this financial year to ensure current case loads do not increase. We are keeping performance under close review and are confident there is sufficient capacity to deal with the number of appeals we expect to receive.

The number of appeals since October 2015, both lodged and outstanding, in First-tier immigration appeals are in the table below:

Appeals Lodged

Outstanding

Oct 15

6,231

54,446

Nov 15

6,063

55,907

Dec 15

6,079

57,951

Jan 16

4,822

59,533

Feb 16

6,457

60,488

Mar 16

6,103

61,901

Apr 16

5,370

62,668

May 16

5,374

63,598

Jun 16

5,254

64,821

Jul 16

4,770

64,108

Aug 16

5,177

63,604

Sep 16

4,524

62,903

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
57847
Session
2016-17
Subjects
Appeals Immigration
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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